Muriel Cole

[…]e because it was nobody to really recognize. And then fiddlers three, another Tommy trender and oh no, by then, I think we had got, oh, there was one picture where there was, we had a lovely old assistant director called Billy Russell, oh yes, he had been a variety artist, and he became an assistant[…]

Roger Davis

[…]I can share the screen and then we can sort of illustrate what I'm talking about if that's okay. So we'll go there. So, hopefully you have you have a picture of the house that where I was born, do you have that okay.Speaker 2  0:50  looks it looks rather idyllic. Indeed, ifSpeaker 1  […]

Agnes Wilkie

[…]s to be doing, if you were lucky, 30 [%] but mostly in the 20s so it was quite sensational at the time. And then, low and behold, they went on to win BAFTAs and things like that which was fantastic! So, it was, I mean I find it hard to think that anybody lived through a more golden era of opportunit[…]

Joe Busuttil

[…]ainting and I had painted this portrait of her from a photograph and she was quite impressed, I was quite impressed myself, I mean, it was a terrible picture thinking about it now, but at the time.  I went with a pal of mine and my missus, it was my girl friend then.  We went to picture an[…]

Jill Craigie

[…]hen there's the film. But then, I understand there were newsreels and other things...Jill Craigie: Newsreels, and then there were terrible American B-pictures, which were frightful, which you had to sit through if you wanted to see the newsreels. And then it was the main film. They were mostly Briti[…]

Richard Levin

[…]:13  I killed the myth about the Albert Hall. Because I started doing other programmes only like the ones with the real audiences likeMiss World BAFTA Awards or something like that, which I used to do all these because nobody else seems to know teh Albert Hall, which isa really interesting plac[…]

Dicky Leeman

[…] of the rostra, and get them ready and get a picture, with about five minutes to go. And very often, […]

Jack Rockett

[…] Jack Rockett: Well I was there for - until Gaumont-British Picture Corporation was formed in 1930. Sidney Cole: And that […]

Jill Langley

[…]ollection. So we went though, well, ostensibly, when it was raining, but we went there anyway, you know, it's a handy place to go. Didn't look at the pictures. And so I then had three years there, three are very happy, very, very happiest. And it was really kind of before its time, because it was ve[…]
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