Aida Young (nee Cohen)

 Interview with Aida Young The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Aida Young, film and TV series producer. Interviewer Teddy Darvas.                       Recorded on the 29th September 1[…]

Christopher Challis

[…]any longer. It was hit by a flying bomb during the war. I don't think there was anything particularly of note during my school career. I always liked films. I wanted to get into films. From an early age I liked the cinema. I was interested in photography. My father was interested in photography, jus[…]

Penny Woolcock

[…]p;And and I think I know the answer, but does your family - prior to your own career - does your family, or has your family, had any connections with film, television, the area of work in which you've made your your life's work? Penny Woolcock  1:09  I I've had no family connection wh[…]

Anne Hanford

[…] for somebody to fill her job which was in their library.  Library in the sense that they owned books and periodicals, it was nothing to do with film or anything but it was working for Associated-Rediffusion.  So, because I wasn’t very happy there I went for an interview and lo and behold […]

Jimmy Wright

[…];Ostend and across in the vote. And um anyhow uh. When the war started the film industry of course virtually came to a standstill shooting at Cannon. I think&nb[…]

Daphne Anstey (nee Lily)

 This material is the copyright of the ACTT History Project, Daphne Anstey widow of Edgar, editor with the National Film Board of Canada under her maiden name, Lily, interviewers JohnLegard [JL] and Gloria Sachs [GS], recorded in her home, in Hampstead Garden Suburb, 3 May 1989. Recordist Alan […]

Carol Owens

[…]And I also met my husband-to-be in the lower sixth which is quite a long time ago and we have been very happy and together ever since.The interest in film started also quite early on. I'd always been interested in watching TV and watching movies and I got my first Super 8 camera when I was 16 and sh[…]

Taylor Downing

[…]t school. It was then a very, very, mixed school, socially very, very, mixed; went to read history as an undergraduate at Cambridge, and then studied film, as a postgraduate at Bristol, and was very keen to try and find a way to bring these two great interest of mine, film and history together, and […]

Lusia Krakowska (Mrs Arendt)

The copyright of this interview lies with the \british Entertainment History Project Interview with Lusia KrakowskaLusia Krakowska, Film Editor Interviewer Roy FowlerRecorded on the 23rdJanuary 1998Side One:RF: The date is 23rdJanuary 1998 and we're recording Lusia Krakowska, that is L-U-S-I-A […]

E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]there for I suppose it was about 15 years or so and then we moved nearer London to Great Missenden, and it was from Great Missenden that I started in films. I should say that when I left school in 1929 I went into the advertising industry and I was going to be with Mather and Crowther...Roy Fowler:&[…]
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