[…]sAlan Lawson: How comeMonty Berman: Because I had an uncle who was in the business and I was very keen on the cinema and he got me ajob at Twickenham Film Studios as it was then with Julius HagenAlan Lawson: In what departmentMonty Berman: In the camera departmentAlan Lawson: And who was there thenM[…]
[…];And I had two older sisters, and a younger brother. So I had plenty of people around with me. And nobody had any sort of influence for me to go into films, or theatre or anything. I hadn't got a particular desire to go to theatre. I wanted to film because I could see that you were able t[…]
GUIDO COENCopyright is invested in ACTT History Project.Guido Coen, producer and director of Twickenham Film Studios - interviewer Sid Cole .SIDE 1, TAPE 1SC: We always ask about origins, where were you born.GC : I was born in Milan, in 1915 which makes me 73, I don't feel it but its there.SC : And […]
[…]I’ve got twins. A boy and a girl, Mathew and Rosalind. Mathew is a drama feature director and he is just about to start his first feature film which has just been financed which is going to be shot in Brazil and I am a sort of executive on that. You just sit in the armchair, you kn[…]
[…]unning the operational side of Movietone until the War. He was a first class aerialphotographer, having been in the RAF as a Pilot. He specialised in film work from the air and heassigned himself to the flying jobs.Q Can you tell me his name?A Jack. When the war came he became a correspondent - war […]
[…]hen it was taken over by a motion picture company - I'm not at all sure whether it was Paramount or something like that. And they used to make silent films round there, and occasionally they would enlist some local people for crowd scenes, everybody would be in it from round about you see, and there[…]
