Ronald Neame

[…]ghting cameraman and our producer, director, Ronald Neame. Ronald, let's start at the very beginning, you had a parentage that was very active in the film industry of its time. Ronald Neame  0:35  Yes, Roy Fowler  0:36  Elwin Neame your father and yo[…]

Rodney Giesler

[…]into the video business, these remarks: "Oh that'll do. It's only a video." "We'll get away with that." It makes me sad and angry because it's such a betrayal. The people who made films when I started, who understood them and used them properly had a marvellous movement that's marked in the history […]

Alan Izod

[…]the earliest time that I remember him, he was head Brewer at Meux's Brewery Limited in in London, which was practically on the site where the British Film Institute later was in in the corner of great Russell Street. And I think this site was sold  way back in the 20s. The Dominion Cinema, for […]

Patrick (Paddy) Carey

[…]or two years. And then fair of my second honour, mercifully, I went to art school. And that was really the beginning I think of of what brought me to film. Many questionsUnknown Speaker  3:54  as an actress,Paddy Carey  3:55  my mother was an actress and I think we joined her in […]

Oswald (Ossie) Morris

[…]ast but two or three when the winners that packed up and gone home and I was still trying to get home during that time I somehow became interested in film. And I want to handle film on. And I can remember in the art classes that we used to have Bishop's Holt if we ever have to do posters I woul[…]

Val Guest

[…]ting?VG: No.RF: Not even in school plays.VG: That came later in my teens when I went into, I went on stage to start with and then I did odd things in films for Warner Brothers and BIP [British International Pictures] and I worked a lot with Lupino Lane.RF: Just to wrap up on school did you have any […]

Norman Spencer

[…]an do this day, I could remember the excitement of going through the plush curtains into this dark and rather warm, sweaty sort of auditorium and the film was on the screen. And lo and behold, I saw it moved. I didn't know how or what. But I was hooked from that moment onwards. I, when I got a littl[…]

Vivienne Collins

[…]m the original cassette recording.Tape 1 Side A.The copyright of this recording is vested in The BECTU History Project. Vivienne Collins, nee Knight, film librarian, film creditor, documentaries, interviewer John Legard with Alan Lawson, recorded on the 30th of January 1997. Side One.AL: We’re […]

Richard Marden

Dave Robson  0:00  racter The subject is Richard Marden, documentary and Feature Film Editor. He has also worked in sound department interviewed by John Legard, the date is 17 to January 1996. This is side one, and it's file number 361.Alan Legard  0:29  Dick. Now, perhaps you co[…]
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