Cyril Page

[…] at the age of 14 and went to work.Alan Lawson: Um...What, what do you mean by work?Cyril Page: Well, when I was at school I started er...showing the films to the school on the Friday afternoon, so I could get out of doing lessons, and I had an old 9.5 Ace Projector, hand-turn, and we used to do the[…]

Teddy Darvas

[…]dapest which was where all the journalists and actors and writers met and they owner of that cafe got a projector and put up a sheet and he had these film shows. And my father took Alex to see it and it seems, according to my father, that Alex said 'that is the thing for me' and that is when he got […]

John Dark

[…]contact BEHP Secretary,  sue.malden@btinternet.com.Show SpeakerThe copyright of this recording is vested in the Ac t history project. John Darke film producer recorded on the 10th of December 1990 at Twickenham film studios. Interviewer said Coe with Ellen Lawson side one okay. John it's nice t[…]

Donald Wilson

[…]cularly speak with a Scottish accent, Linda Wood  0:54like further. Did you have any specialised training before you started working in the film industry? Donald Wilson  1:05I went to the Glasgow School of Art. And that's the only specialised training I have. Because I had I left[…]

Doug Allan

[…]ort of in terms of family background, did your father or your mother's work or career or interests in any way lead into your own career as a wildlife filmmaker, cameraman. Doug Allan  1:07  It's interesting, my father was a very successful freelance photographer, mostly news[…]

Ted (Robert Edward) Newman

[…]ning, the the proprietor I presume, I think they call them Barker's in those days. He was on the front telling us with a megaphone, all the wonderful films we'd see if we went inside. There was a list of titles but the time we there were very provocative titles but not unlike it when he went into li[…]

Jim Whittell

[…];   JIM WHITTELL:  1922 Dinnington.  1927 the Queen’s Hall, Dover.  And my father who was the by that time projectionist and film booker argued with his father about sound, because his father said it was a fad and his daughter would no longer be able to play the piano to acc[…]
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