[…]rs and things like that. Have you had any [inaudible]?Well, I’m a Fellow of the Royal College of Art, and, I’ve got a BAFTA.For?A Channel 4 film Cutting Edge: Casualties.Ah, OK. And your parents did what? It’s sort of relevant.[laughs] My father was in the Army, and, Medical Corp[…]
[…]g in The King and I, very lovely girl. Never mind. John Legard: Not Virginia McKenna ?Jean Anderson: No, because I worked with Virginia in films quite a lot.  No, Virginia McKenna also played it, so, no, can’t remember.Margaret Thomson: So at the moment, in a chronological sense, you[…]
[…]ou because we've both (Alan and I) read that fascinating autobiography of yours, so I won't ask you very much about the early days before you were in films, but you were born in 1905, which makes you a bit older than me, but did your family have any connection with the entertainment business?Muriel […]
[…]ect, on 16 February 2018. So, thank you for agreeing to take part in this Simon. To begin with if we could talk a little bit about your background in film and photography, and how that really started.SL: Sure. I mean I was always into photography and film. I went to art school, studying experimental[…]
[…]bsp;Darrol Blake  0:16  great. Okay, tell us a bit about the family and whether they had anything to do with the business theater film. Yeah, Kent Houston  0:21  My parents were in the film industry previous to the Second World War, and in fact, during th[…]
[…]sonInterviewee: Erica MastersTape 1, Side 1Sydney Samuelson: Well we're sitting here on the 2nd August 1995. We're in the meeting room of the British Film Commission, at 70, Baker Street in London, and the interviewee is no less than Miss Erica Masters, a legendary production person in our industry,[…]
[…];out     of the airforce, a much decorated airman, and I was  the  join and we'd sit there and join film and it bored me to death. I also did a little bit in the sound department, that also bored me to death, a[…]
This 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). (2015).BECTU History ProjectInterview […]
    EXTRACT: On losing the job of a lifetime:-"I said a permanent job in films or television would be like winning the pools - any kind of a job, I’d be grateful. I suddenly got a phone call one day to see this guy called Ward Thomas, so I go traipsing down to this place beh[…]
