[…]rs and things like that. Have you had any [inaudible]?Well, I’m a Fellow of the Royal College of Art, and, I’ve got a BAFTA.For?A Channel 4 film Cutting Edge: Casualties.Ah, OK. And your parents did what? It’s sort of relevant.[laughs] My father was in the Army, and, Medical Corp[…]
EXTRACT: On losing the job of a lifetime:-
"I said a permanent job in films or television would be like winning the pools - any kind of a job, I’d be grateful. I suddenly got a phone call one day to see this guy called Ward Thomas, so I go traipsing […]
[…]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[…]
[…] always remember it, we worked out of 142 Wardour Street, Film House, I had to go to Marble Arch where […]
[…]cause he hadn't told them what it was about. They didn't realise it was a protest against the Commonwealth Games. Steve then went off to the National Film and Television School. He was one of the first year's intake at the School and when he was there, Centre Point had just been built in London with[…]
[…]ssful dressmaker. And she had - amongst many of her clients - she had a lady whose husband happened to be at that time the general sales manager of a film company called British Lion Film Corporation. And Sidney Myers was looking, or somebody within British Lion was looking for some young blood, and[…]
[…], really. It was a grammar school education. Unfortunately, I dipped out of the educational system at the age of 15 with the opportunity of joining a film laboratory. I was interested in photography. I was interested in photography at school and the film laboratory seemed to be a very good way in wh[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] side. And during the late 60s and early 70s, British film production largely through American investment was flourishing. And Samuelsons […]
[…]where?Anthony Mendleson : Where?Linda Wood : Ah hmm.Anthony Mendleson : London.Linda Wood : London, yes. Did your family have any connection with the film industry or...?Anthony Mendleson : No not at all.Linda Wood : Not at all...?Anthony Mendleson : Ah hmm.Linda Wood : And, did you go to the cinema[…]
