[…] this is an interview by Katy McGahan, one of the curators in the Non-Fiction unit at the BFI interviewing for the BECTU History Project, Mary Orrom, filmmaker, editor and director. And it's 25th of January 2011. Katy McGahan 0:30 OK Mary Orrom, many thank[…]
This transcription was provided in 2015 by the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, Leeds University) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University).BECTU History Project Interview no: N/K Inter[…]
[…]e played again unless I played it. I don’t think it’s been played yet. SC: I didn’t realise that it had been dramatised actually, apart from the film version which Sandy Mackendrick did, many years later. DM: This wasn’t High Wind in Jamaica, this was called A Comedy of Good and Evil. […]
[…]w what it is, but it’s jolly heavy. All thatyardage, I think she could hardly stand up in it. And I remember during that time was my first visit to a film studio ever and I think we went to Denholm one day and I thought the wardrobe mistress was terribly hard-hearted because she wouldn’t change some[…]
[…] I started work in the' office of the Automobile Association in St James's Street as an office boy.Fowler/Lawson: Oh, well how come you got into films?Bill Girdlestone: Well, I was the original film buff. I had a home cinema at about 12. A local sweet shop started to sell film, six feet a […]
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 ProjectInterview n[…]
[…]troduce myself my name is Nigel ArthurCL: My name is Cornel Arthur (laughs)NA: We’ve met before. I’m the curator of the stills library at the British Film Institute. Cornel you’re a world renowned stills photographer, so obviously there’s an affinity between us. I wondered if we could go right back […]
[…]and she said “well well, in that case you can give up Italia Conti, you can go back to school and learn”, which I did. But I did get the odd parts in films, and it happened that when the film started, I was in 16, or shortly after then..and er…I was allowed to leave school, because I got all of the […]
[…]with ACT?A Through Ralph. Ralph knew Grierson and we spent any free time we had was at the cinema and Ralph had a book where he had a review of every film and he got to know Grierson even while he was working at the party headquarters.Q Was he then reviewing films for the Daily Worker or...A He[…]
