A F (Peter) Birch

[…] for nearly two years, and I can say that I was an embryo television man. In fact I ran the demonstration studio for about six months, did all my own artistry.Alan Lawson : Soho Square?Peter Birch : No, Long Acre; and then I branched out. I couldn't see any future actually in the disc rotating telev[…]

Una Bart (Jennings)

[…]tificate. SC: And he became, he was signed up as an acrobat was he? UB: He was taken into the circus and was trained to be a flying trapeze artist, and at 15 he fell from, he missed a catch and fell into the ring and was carried out unconscious and had to go up and do it again, no bones br[…]

June Randall

[…]nd Imean you don’t really have to learn shorthand to do continuity but it is really an advantagebecause you can take the dialogue down, sometimes the artists say the wrong things andJune Randall Page 17then they say they said it correctly, you say, ‘No you didn’t and I’ll read it back to you’. […]

Lindsay Anderson

[…] time the Rank Organisation, inspired by Stanley Baker and Joe Losey, they bought This Sporting Life and it was given to Julian Wintle of Independent Artists. Julian Wintle for some reason did not want to make a film with Joe Losey, I think they had made Blind Date. I don't know what happened, I nev[…]

Godfrey Jennison

[…]ery intelligent. And he apparently has been met not because he wasn't. I think again to be checked he was on. A lecturer at some university in modern artists or 19th century art. He knew all that Monet and Manet and everybody else in the first impressionism interesting. And knew a lot of them as old[…]

Angela Allen

[…] saw that, I think it was BAFTA one year was giving out a prize to production accountants, but quite honestly I don’t think they contributed too much artistically to productions, I think they’ve done an awful lot of damage but, I really think it wouldn’t be a bad idea if you know they all did it to […]

Peter Dimmock

[…], God.  Well, we’ll do our best.”           We put together this Calais en Fete, we got circus artistes, we got mannequins from Paris – and I’ll tell you a story about that a minute – we had Richard Dimbleby as our commentator and obviously ther[…]
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