[…]er and Sidney ColeInterviewee: Tom PeacockTape 1, Side 1Sidney Cole: Well it's nice to meet you Tom and to ask you about what you remember about that film which we were both associated with at Denham Studios all those years ago, 1942 in fact. Would you like to tell me about your involvement in that?[…]
[…]amlet in in Suffolk called Somerton, and That's basically where I've had my early years, I went to the local schools and where I first had a piece of film in my hand, piece of 9.5 film of Alan bes army, and with a hand cranked 9.5 projector. I was there for the rest, rest of my younger life, and eve[…]
[…]a job, and then in the afternoon, if I got into the Gaumont State at Kilburn before two o'clock I could get in for sixpence. And we had a big feature film, a B film, the news, an hour's variety programme, and an organ recital. And it was a good place for an out of work actor to sit down and rest him[…]
[…]cording and transcript is vested in the BECTU History Project. Bryan Langley was interviewed by Arthur Graham on 18 November 1987.1. Improvising with film stockAG: We're on the different types of film stocks. What were their differences, and what were their special requirements as far as shooting wa[…]
[…] I had decided that I was going to be the greatest director since David Wark Griffith it was around that time. My mother always said “He’s film barmy” because I was always trotting off or insisting on being taken if I couldn’t get in by myself, even then I was keeping up. Kevin Brown[…]
[…]I did, and my anticipating cover, as a maintenance engineer member for a number of years, I was employed here, and also our maintenance engineers and film studios, and in the film business generally, are, as it were working as individuals. And it was not for many, many, many years later that I was i[…]
[…]ated transcription service, supplied by John Harwood and edited by David Sharp in 2019. The numbers in square brackets are timecodes. [Filming began outside]Interviewer: Jimmie King. David Woodward on camera.[TAPE 1] Jimmie King [JK]: If you’d like to introduce yourself Bob.[…]
[…]ery anxious for me to get into the firm. And I was anxious to get into motion pictures! My eldest sister had written quite a few original stories for films. At that time the principal film industry was not in Hollywood, but in New Jersey, across the River, the Hudson River, from Manhattan, from New […]
[…], which of course has gone now, Lime Grove at Shepherd's Bush, and I started there. And the reason I started there was because my father was having a film made there. He wrote for the cinema and theatre, and I thought it would be a good idea to go into films because you didn't need any intelligence […]