[…]ect, on 16 February 2018. So, thank you for agreeing to take part in this Simon. To begin with if we could talk a little bit about your background in film and photography, and how that really started.SL: Sure. I mean I was always into photography and film. I went to art school, studying experimental[…]
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 […]
[…] a bit of shorthand typing. Away. Can you remember when you started in the film industry. Well yes I can because some it was an accident really in that.&nb[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] was the start of me er...you know, really in the film...because I was bred and born with it I think... […]
[…] the light of the Anschluss. Coming to England she studied film under William Hunter at Dartington College in Devon, before […]
[…] 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[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]g in The King and I, very lovely girl. Never mind. John Legard: Not Virginia McKenna ?Jean Anderson: No, because I worked with Virginia in films quite a lot. No, Virginia McKenna also played it, so, no, can’t remember.Margaret Thomson: So at the moment, in a chronological sense, you[…]
