Alan Lawson

[…]pain from the Printers' Anti Fascist Movement and I'd taken it over. I think I'd taken this lorry over at Gerona and I made dumps of food in various parts, up in the North there and I was running refugees out. And I made the frontier I think, my final trip to the frontier was made about 3 hours befo[…]

Oswald (Ossie) Morris

[…]s is this is it you know nothing and I just kept going to old by the way I think that's something for you. I said really he said yes but he said it starts on on a Monday. Can you start Monday he started new before he s He said it doing clappers in court yet  said. You only pay two pounds a[…]

Ivor Montagu

[…] with the political documentary of the 1930s with modern television documentaries. BECTU History Project - Interview No. 118 [Copyright BECTU […]

Robert Scott

[…] to edit on those because the faster you see the picture and again we are doing the same variety of programmes really - sport and we started doing an Arts programme called NB at the time so I did the first on-line of that so there was a lot more to do on that programme when it came to the on-line as[…]

Interview

[…]o on. And they financed those films that we made for them. You see. So it became a kind of contracting-out operation as far as er - the non-Railways parts of the Commission were concerned, the old Commission, • and we were a direct department, department thing with the er - with the British Railways[…]

Harry Fowler

[…]What sort of films did you enjoy as a boy?HF: First thing we used to say is if there was a good picture on, so the first thing you ask was “Any love parts?” So, they’d say “no, not in this.” Because we hated love parts. If blokes started kissing Rosalind Russell or somebody we’d say “come on, hurry […]

Mary Orrom

[…]nt, the chances were that they would get thrown out. But this came, this film came up fairly early, I think, in the setting up of once a month, short documentaries in cinemas.  Mary Orrom  15:27  So the cinemas were actually obliged to show these between their first and[…]

Peter Graham Scott

[…] Mr Hitchcock won’t want you until er…erm…later, so you can come on the set and watch. And they did this enormous tracking shot with a crane, which starts on a group of dancers, goes through the dancers, and slowly ends up, all in one shot, in one lens, goes slowly up to the eye of the drummer who’s[…]
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