Vernon Sewell

[…] know they - you had to have the very, very basic knowledge, which people apparently didn't have, and people didn't […]

Cyril Pennington

[…] and Colin Moffat. Side One. First of all really the basic question, when and where were you born? Cyril Pennington-Richards: […]

Ian Rutter

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Judy Ritchie

[…]my daughter - I was young and enthusiastic and creative, focussed and pretty determined which were all the characteristics you had to have as a woman basically! So, you sank or swam! But a lot of the members of the Design Department were, perhaps, more mature and had, sort of, (this sounds terrible)[…]

Taylor Downing

[…]ed the idea of looking at a historical subject, making a film on a historical subject. He was rather cautious about it because he thought it was basically trying to make a film with other peoples’ rushes, it was other peoples’ archive material that you were using, rather than his own that he’d […]

Derek Threadgall

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Christopher Miles

[…]t. And if I'm speaking French to the camerasman which  was some of them weren't quite sure what was happening on the directing side . But it was basically as you just pointed out, you got it you read a French first. Yes, everyone was French. Yes, obviously everyone. Yes, yes. And they were a te[…]

Vernon Sewell

[…]it. You had to know there was a Boer War, there was a Queen Anne and there was a Prince Regent, you had to know they - you had to have the very, very basic knowledge, which people apparently didn't have, and people didn't understand it. I saw it running somewhere when Joan and I were out, we saw it […]

James (Jimmy) Gilbert

[…]y or anything he didn't know my great ambition was to be a director.John Taylor: How much did you get in the biscuit factoryJimmy Gilbert: It was £6b basic or £7 basic and you could do overtime, and I was allowed to go and do overtime when and as I wanted. And also every week for a shilling you got […]

John Aldred

[…]se do that?John Aldred: It was left to me to do the editing but in those days I didn't know very much about editing so a lot of it was left unedited. Basically it was a record of an event and any boy who was recognisable in the film, I had to leave it in as a record. It wasn't an edited process wher[…]
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