Virginia McKenna

[…]at you’d made this choice by now?VM: I was, yes. I felt ready in myself to start earning my living and getting on with life, yes.JR: So, there was no filming at this stage – this was all theatre?VM: Yes. It was 1950, I was in London at the Haymarket Theatre. In those days, there was a wonderful thea[…]

Joe Mendoza

[…]of September 1993, to Boscastle. Joe to begin with, can you can you tell me when you were born? Yes, I'll go on to describe how you came to be in the film industry.Joe Mendoza  0:22   So I was born 921 in southeast London.event, what date 29th of January, when the query and my family […]

Richard Marden

Dave Robson  0:00  racter The subject is Richard Marden, documentary and Feature Film Editor. He has also worked in sound department interviewed by John Legard, the date is 17 to January 1996. This is side one, and it's file number 361.Alan Legard  0:29  Dick. Now, perhaps you co[…]

Paul Fox

[…] I learned more at Pathé, I suppose, than I did at any other place, other than in television, because what I learned was the discipline of writing to film, two words a foot, and I learnt it in a very hard school, taught by two Fleet Street newspaper men, one called David [s.l. Cole 0:04:42], the oth[…]

Peter Suschitzky

[…]today.  This is the voice of Paul Frith on the 8th June 2018. So, if we can start by talking a little bit about where your interest in film and photography developed and some of your background in cinematography.PS: Yes, well I was brought up with … from the beginning with photography[…]

Vivienne Collins

[…]m the original cassette recording.Tape 1 Side A.The copyright of this recording is vested in The BECTU History Project. Vivienne Collins, nee Knight, film librarian, film creditor, documentaries, interviewer John Legard with Alan Lawson, recorded on the 30th of January 1997. Side One.AL: We’re […]

Rebecca O\'Brien

[…]tMike Dick  0:10  of this recording is vested in the British entertainment history project. The name of the interviewee is Rebecca O'Brien, film producer. The date was the 22nd of March, 2017, and the interviewer is Mike dick, okay, Rebecca, can you briefly tell me who you are and what you[…]

Wolfgang Suschitzky

[…] i Someone gave me an introduction to basil, right? I forget who it was, and he received me very kindly, but he had no opening in his company realist films. Then, even, even then it was called realist films. He sent me across Oxford Street to strand films, where Paul Rosa was one of the producers, a[…]

Ray Harryhausen

[…]ntial artistic abilities and she used to make the costumes when I started making my fairy tales after the war and what do you remember what the first film you saw.SPEAKER: M3I don't remember I know my parents were good cinema goers and they used to take me I remember seeing old German film I saw met[…]

Simon Rose

[…]es. Simon rose Date of Birth second, the third 1946 work mainly in television What else do you want to know? What areas and mostly sorry, mostly as a film editor? Although not entirely.Ian Noah  0:49  And was this for documentaries orSimon Rose  0:51  Yes. Again, mostly documenta[…]
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