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:&[…]

Gerry Weinbren

[…]father's thinking was you better go to Britain because that's where you'll learn the trade rather than stand South Africa which of course had no real film industry. Well Harry what was working there at the time.SPEAKER: M6He was doing the sequel to the film he had done about a lion family. So I came[…]

Godfrey Jennison

[…]or I just in the I got the impression I was a little nap processing. It was a release print 916 mail. It rejoiced and then in the name of substantive film finish limited substandard definition. It is now film Magic and much more respectable but it was at the top end of Dean Street under OK. I had an[…]

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 […]

Bernie Andrews

[…]ay and all that?.. BAYeah.  But that’s how he got him to do it.  He actually went behind him…   on the drum kit.  24.04MDWas the Bo Diddley session the Stones first session?  On the same day then?  Can you remember that at all? BAYes because the…&nbs[…]

Sarah Erulkar (de Normanville)

[…]allowed.The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT history project. Sara de Normanville, professionally known as Sara Erulkar, documentary film director. Interviewer John Taylor. Recorded on the twenty-eighth of February 1991, with interjections by her husband, Peter (PdN). Side one.[00:3[…]

Joe McGrath

[…]r - this was as you’ll probably know this was Jonathan Routh was going out and - er- involving people in japes and wheezes and - and  - er - you filmed it from a hidden camera which was supplied to us by the Samuelson family - and David Samuelson CBE and people like that were all locked in cupb[…]

Cynthia Moody

[…] wanted something that gave me freedom that I could find as an alternative to fashion art,which was my then passion. And I didn’t know anything about films at all, but I sort offelt that documentary films seemed to offer me something that interested me. But I didn’tknow anybody in films and I had no[…]

Barbara K Emary

[…]terview with Barbara Emary, in her home, 5th July 1988Interviewer Bob AllenSIDE 1, TAPE 1BA : Perhaps you could tell us when you first ca me into the film industry, how you got interested in filmmaking, what lead you - into it.BE: The most interesting thing is that as a teenager I was all against fi[…]
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