Tilly Day (continuity) 1903-1994by admin — last modified Jul 28, 2008 04:32 PMBIOGRAPHY: Tilly Day worked on over 300 British films between the 1920s and 1970s, most particularly as ‘continuity girl’. Her career began at Walthamstow Studios in the 1917 and she received her first credit in […]
[…] Auxiliary Territorial Service during WWII and subsequently returned to the film industry, working for Rank and Hammer studios among others. […]
[…]fter the other, 'till I got this big shed.Rodney Giesler: How do you mean, you opened up?Larry Allen: Well I had projectors and I was making animated films back in them days, as a boy.Rodney Giesler: Yeah, but where did you get the money to buy the projectors?Larry Allen: Well actually the projector[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]amera mechanics were stuck in a time mold. As far as engineering was concerned, their engineering base was in the early 1900s when they moved over to film, they divorced themselves from general engineering, and they stayed with films so, so they were doing things in the 1950sUnknown Speaker 4:[…]
[…], 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 […]
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 Project Interview […]
Dicky Leeman (television and film director) b.1912 by admin — last modified Aug 15, 2008 01:39 PM BIOGRAPHY: Born in […]
[…] by funds from the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell […]
[…] for somebody to fill her job which was in their library. Library in the sense that they owned books and periodicals, it was nothing to do with film or anything but it was working for Associated-Rediffusion. So, because I wasn’t very happy there I went for an interview and lo and behold […]
