[…]a century. I know  you started off in the camera department became a cameraman. And that you ended up as the producer of those specialised  films 50 years is quite time, how did it all begin?John Wiles  0:43  Well, I suppose it began really with my, as a kid I had an interest in […]
Alan Lawson:00.00The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project,  Karel Reisz, film director.Interviewer Norman Swallow, recorded 17 April 1991 SIDE 1, Norman Swallow:0.23  Where and […]
[…]ProsserTape 1, Side 1Alan Lawson: The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. David Prosser, Newsreel cameraman, later BBC film cameraman. Recorded on the 23rd of the fifth, 1989 at his home in Chandler's Ford, Interviewer Alan Lawson. Side one.[break in recording]Alan Law[…]
[…]nd what a sound recordist was in those days because there were only two ways of doing it – you either went into broadcasting or gramophone records or films and it was practically unknown for anybody to be interested in such a thing.I was always fascinated by sounds and that is what I wanted to do. A[…]
[…]yes, 2 years foundation and 2 years intermediate and then you get your NDD so it's a 4 years course. 0:04:29.9 MIKE: So how did you get into the film and television industry? 0:04:32.0 JOY: Well, I didn't want to be directed to education and teachers because that's what they used to do... […]
[…]den@btinternet.com. Alan Lawson  0:06  The copyright of this recording is vested in the back to history project. JOHN Shirley, Feature Film Editor, interviewer, Alan Lawson, with sid Wilson, recorded on the 29th of September 1993. side one? Well, first, john, when and where were you b[…]
[…]e my grandfather was very interested in photography and he also at one time, before I came around, had in fact a movie camera and did a lot of family filming which, much to my sorrow, he gave away the film to a distant cousin of mine andI’ve never seen it. But he in fact did build his own little hom[…]
[…]d in Margate until the war; as a child DW would got to the cinema every week; very little of his early life had anything to do with his career in the film industry, when he left the army in 1947 he knew he didn’t want to work in an office; Southern Rail had a small film unit for training under Water[…]
