[…]y would have loved to work in the theatre but knew nothing about it. Sort of thought that perhaps working for The BBC would be a wonderful place to start because there would be programmes going on and also a weekly pay cheque or, you know, pay packet in this. So I applied to The BBC and had an inter[…]
[…] instigated. Maurice Carter #174 540 minute interview Maurice Carter t/role: Art Director and Production Designer Maurice was born on 24 […]
[…]about your family and how you came to be in the film industry?Right. My family consisted of a father who was in the engineering business, who would started making his own films and when he was young man just after the the First World War. So we have a very unusual 16 millimetre stuff. And I became v[…]
[…]s Menges (CM) Cinematographer Interviewers: Paul Frith (PF) & Keith Johnston (KJ) Date 10/05/2019 Total Length 01:26:43 Part One[00:00:09]PF: Well first off, thank you Chris for taking part in the interview today. I think we should begin where your interests in film and […]
[…] with Stephen Peet and Alan LawsonBill Cotton Jr was born on 23 April 1928, educatedArdingnye College, SussexSIDE 1, TAPE 1John Taylor: Your father started working with the band early on, before you were born I supposeBill Cotton Jr: Absolutely, yes, he started the band in the 20s, early 20s. And I […]
[…]d Kingston-Upon-Thames. My Dad was a toolmaker, who’s now retired, and my Mum did all sort of jobs to fit in and around myself and my brother, who’s Martin, who’s seven years older than me, so she worked as a playground minder at a school. But by and large she was a part-time copy typist for a milk,[…]
[…]t an expensive or distinguished school, but very old. Warwick School. INTERVIEWER: Right. And after you left school, what sort of work did you start at? CHARLES SMITH: Well, I got an exhibition to Cambridge in mathematics, but I decided for one reason or another not to take this up. I didn[…]
[…]ather came out of the Royal Air Force I think that was 1928 when talkies started and uh he he wanted to go into the newsreel business which was just b[…]
[…]riter Director. The interviewer is Glyn Jones. The date is the first of May 2002. And this is side one. Have you had an extensive career in the particularly in the sponsored documentary field, we probably will call it. I know in fact that you must have filmed in pretty well every continent in t[…]
