Side 1 Ralph Bond  0:00  This is a tape recording with three ACTT members who have spent all or most of their working life in film laboratories. We have Bert Craik, Sam Williams, and Alf Cooper. And we're going to discuss the many, many changes that have taken place both in technical […]
Side 1Ralph Bond  0:00  This is a tape recording with three ACTT members who have spent all or most of their working life in film laboratories. We have Bert Craik, Sam Williams, and Alf Cooper. And we're going to discuss the many, many changes that have taken place both in technical condit[…]
[…]?Philip Leacock: Bedales.Stephen Peet: So, did you do, then, at school, any specialised training, or - put it this way, why did you decide to go into films? Was it at somebody's suggestion, or somebody you met?Philip Leacock: Um, It really started possibly because they had a very nice darkroom at th[…]
[…]nd then my ex-husband was doing If…, was it If…? No not If…, A Suitable Case for Treatment.CR: MorganEH: Morgan, yeah that’s right. And at the end of film party, Jocelyn Rickards was there and I’d heard about Jocelyn and I thought she sounded wonderful, and I had for a bit worked as Art Director on […]
Tony Lawson Side 1 Linda Wood  0:00  Tony Lawson, film editor, being interviewed by Linda Wood on the fifth of December. 2000 tape interview for can you say where you were born? Tony Lawson  0:16  Yes, I was born in London, in Paddington. My mother w[…]
[…]ber 1996. Side One.We’re going.Yes. Okay.Right.Right Mary, tell us about your childhood, where you were born, how you, educated and how you came into films?I was born in Cornwall in October 1919 and very shortly after that, about three months or less, went to New York with my father, mother and my e[…]
[…]at was called "the lower floor" at Stolls. [Coughs] On the upper floor was Welsh-Pearson, who was doing things like 'Yellow Stockings', and such like films. People like...um...Dickinson...Rodney Giesler : ...DickinsonL.P. Williams : ...whose wife, Joanna McFaddyen, had been a student with me. He was[…]
[…]as. I had no intention of going on the floor, I didn’t even know what supervisorsor continuity, what it was all about.June Randall Page 21: What films were being made at that time?There was a film called Odd Man Out being made. Also, I think there was Ronnie Shinerand... the guy with […]
[…] we usually start out by saying when and where were you born? Andy Worker: Well I was born in Bedfordshire in 1916. I always wanted to be in the film industry and during the war I got the opportunity - I was a cost accountant, and I got a job at Shepherd's Bush. Much to my surprise I found that[…]
[…] on further education of any kind. So I left and went into work. And I happen to live next door to a young girl who was working at the pearl and Dean film studio in the trace and paint department. And she mentioned to me that the animation studios, were looking for a new junior runner basically to g[…]
