[…]amera mechanics were stuck in a time mold. As far as engineering was concerned, their engineering base was in the early 1900s when they moved over to film, they divorced themselves from general engineering, and they stayed with films so, so they were doing things in the 1950sUnknown Speaker  4:[…]
[…] Did you want to become a journalist, or a playwright, or a script writer? Did you have an ambition?Jill Craigie: Well I gradually wanted to become a film writer. But before that I was always having ideas, and I didn't quite know. I didn't have any guidance. What it must be to be in a family like th[…]
[…]n 1920, May, in Rugby in Warwickshire. And my father kept a photographic chemist's shop. And so we had, uh, sold cameras, and I served customers with films and loaded the cameras. [laughter] I was the boy for all the people who'd bought expensive cameras and then had to get a shop assistant to load […]
Elizabeth Furse DRAFT Tape 1 Side AThis recording was transcribed by funds from the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, University of Leeds) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University). (201[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]mypart but I honestly didn't. It wasn't an issue at all.SRYou said that Robert Bolt was a big influence…was this when you first started thinking aboutfilm or journalism?What was your first idea for a career?JBAh, what an interesting idea! What influence did he have? I think he loved noble characters[…]
[…]where?Anthony Mendleson : Where?Linda Wood : Ah hmm.Anthony Mendleson : London.Linda Wood : London, yes. Did your family have any connection with the film industry or...?Anthony Mendleson : No not at all.Linda Wood : Not at all...?Anthony Mendleson : Ah hmm.Linda Wood : And, did you go to the cinema[…]
