[…]ck : And I think it was a marvellous training ground, The Bush.Kitty Wood : It was.Jim Connock : I remember Johnny Goodman, he's sort of president of BAFTA or chairman of Bafta...Kitty Wood : He started at G-B I as a clapper-boy.Jim Connock : He started - he was a page-boy.Kitty Wood : Well, he was […]
[…] (laughs). I couldn't get over it; we will pay you nine pounds a week2 Roy Oxley (1899-?) was a British production designer at the BBC, he won a BAFTA for his work on The Portrait of a Lady in 1969.3 Peter Bax was a production designer at the BBC, he worked on productions includi[…]
[…]Bill Girdlestone: Wimbledon Park.Fowler/Lawson: How come - oh you moved across, did you? (Yes.) Now, did you receive any special training before you started work?Bill Girdlestone: No, I started work in the' office of the Automobile Association in St James's Street as an office boy.Fow[…]
[…] know. And I sold this, I probably got five bob for it, I don't know, and went back to him […]
[…]not to a great extent, I think that they, they are political. I mean, you know, and we shouldn't be to do with politics. It's taking for granted that BAFTA does it, of course. What's it called? Can't remember the bashand something, Thatcher Association. It's silly. It's not what. We're here about ba[…]
[…]hn Halas’s daughter]NB: John Halas and Bob Godfrey were hamming it up a bit and having a laugh whilst conducting the interview. There is some license for exaggeration. DS 2021. The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project.John Halas, animator and film producer, intervi[…]
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[…] became a camera operator from 1928 -1933 making quota quickies for Paramount. He worked as second unit lighting cameraman (cinematographer) […]
[…]d changing anything. I mean the worst commercial for that I ever did was for that fat, beastly QI presenter. He’s lost weight, he’s married, he’s the Bafta bloke or he was. What’s he called?PF: Stephen Fry?EH: Stephen Fry! I wasn’t that familiar with him but I did know he was big, and a painkiller c[…]
[…]en College from 1915 to 1919 I think it was.Wyn Ryder: What did you start as?Reggie Beck: I had gotten what to do in life. I couldn’t start for a long long time. In desperation I turned to somebody, I was very interested in the sound films as they were then, and after a long time trying to[…]
