Gerry Fisher

[…]1926 19. And I actually did a programme once the cinema the you know, the festival did our kinda festival the British cinematographers and I ran some films there. And I found myself standing on this stage and thinking about stuff. You know, I was born almost where I'm standing now talking to people […]

Sheelagh Rees

Sheelagh Reece DRAFT. Tape 1 Side AThis 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). (201[…]

HP0249 Sheelagh Rees – Transcript

Sheelagh Reece DRAFT. Tape 1 Side A 1 This%recording%was%transcribed%by%funds%from%the%AHRC9funded%‘History%of%Women%in%British% Film%and%Television%project,%193391989’,%led%by%Dr%Melanie%Bell%(Principal%Investigator,%University%of%Leeds)%and%Dr%Vicky%Ball%(Co9Investigator,%De%Montfort%University).%(2015).% BECTU History Project Interview no: 249 Interviewee: Sheelagh Rees Interviewer: […]

L P (Bill) Williams

[…]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[…]

David Watkin

[…]d in Margate until the war; as a child DW would got to the cinema every week; very little of his early life had anything to do with his career in the film industry, when he left the army in 1947 he knew he didn’t want to work in an office; Southern Rail had a small film unit for training under Water[…]

Reginald (Reggie) Beck

[…]story Project - Interview No. 10[Copyright BECTU]Interview Date: 22 July 1987Interviewer: Wyn Ryder, Alan Lawson Interviewee: Reginald (Reggie) Beck, film editorSIDE 1, TAPE 1Wyn Ryder: We ought to start off with where you were born and what sort of schooling you had.Reggie Beck: I was bor[…]

John Shirley

[…]den@btinternet.com. Alan Lawson  0:06  The copyright of this recording is vested in the back to history project. JOHN Shirley, Feature Film Editor, interviewer, Alan Lawson, with sid Wilson, recorded on the 29th of September 1993. side one? Well, first, john, when and where were you b[…]

Robert Beatty

[…]t Beatty: I think they did try up to a point but it was a bit of a hopeless task really.Roy Fowler: One of the most noticeable thing to me in British films at that time are the extraordinary cut glass accents which especially the women had. Real white telephone stuff. Those two shows in the West End[…]

Jill Langley

[…] is Joe Langley. The interview our is Mike deke. On camera is our CO show. The interview number is 415. The date is the 28th of April 2022. And we're filming at her daughter's Claudia's home in Wimbledon.Unknown Speaker  0:23  Okay, Joe, can you tell me where when you were born? I was born[…]
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