Roger Smither

[…] understanding of what it was that you need so they would tend to offer you a VHS cassette and say “well surely, this will do, it’s got the sound and picture on it.” And you’d have to say “No, actually the original camera negative or at the very least a decent copy of the film will last much longer […]

Bill Welch

[…] getting busy, and I don't think we stopped really. I mean it was not as busy as ordinary business but it was busy in the sense that we went from one picture to the other and so on and so on.Jim Shields: There was always something happening, yeah.Bill Welch: Well of course I mean as far as I was con[…]

Peter Montagnon

[…] because she wasn't really she was just a victim of circumstances was i Her name was Piggy and Piggy, who was rather plump she used to take me to the pictures on Saturday afternoons, and insisted on holding my hand and I can never work out at this. I was extremely naive. I couldn't work out why she […]

Jan Zilliacus

[…]t when I was young and by the age of nine I was almost as big as I amnow, you know. And if there was anybody had to be chased by the wolves in Larry’spictures, he was doing a lot of Jack London pictures, and he had to have wolves, you know.Mm.So I grew up with sixty wolves and if anybody had to be c[…]

Noreen Ackland

[…]? Black Narcissus now where you want where you permanent on permanent staff nowNoreen Ackland  21:45  know as each film. So in other words, pictures. And then you got to read a new engagement for that film. Yes, I see. Yes. And another still. I'm back Narcissus. I think I was still engaged[…]

Teddy Darvas

[…]ings. And, of course, Bernard Cribbens was absolutely brilliant in it. I mean, it was a Chaplinesque performance. It was for that film that I got the BAFTA Award for Best Editing.John Legard: Oh you did.p. 106Teddy Darvas: Bernard loved the film so much, he was chairman of the Guild of Fil[…]

John Allen

[…]pplication and sorting them into geographical areas and I remember that people sent all sorts of things to strengthen their case artwork colouring of pictures on all sorts of things like that you know and with a letter to illustrate that they presumably had a commitment to color that that's the sort[…]

Johnny Speight

[…]T Scriptwriter Interviewed by Norman Swallow with Alan Lawson, recorded on 26 November 1990. The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project SIDE 1, TAPE 1 Alan Lawson: First of all when and where were you born Johnny Speight: Canning Town, and I'm trying to keep my age secret.[…]
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