[…]de there.Was there?Y es.Ah, well my memory’s doing alright in that case. And he was tremendous friends with, with Hepworth and he made a whole lot of films over here. Mm, I don’t know how many but of course, they were short films in those days little, little tiny ones, you know. But he had an actor […]
[…]t, Queenie Turner christened Alice May. Laboratory worker, neg and pos, pos , assembler, negcutter and finally librarian of The Imperial War Museum’s Film Archives.Interviewers Alan Lawson and Syd Wilson. Recorded on the twenty-seventh of April 1993. Side One.Right well first and foremost when and w[…]
[…] Stanley Forman 9:40 Theatre critic of the Guardian? Derek Malcolm 9:43 I was a member of Film Society movements and things like that, but really, it was the theatre that didn't just make because I had been an actor you see Stanley For[…]
[…]back up to this hut, which had a couple of holes cut in it. And they would fix the screen at the other end of the heart. And then they would beam the film for the week, with the projector outside on the back of this truck. And that truck used to go to to other places as well, it didn't just come to […]
[…] to wake him up. But he really was a lovely man. And it was still live when we did them the programmes, right, we used a lot of film. And occasionally because they were experimental, we'd make the programmes and they would be telerecorded, and we'd look at them and decide wheth[…]
[…]ut on bioscope shows. Chris Strachan 2:32 That's absolutely right. Yes, they in the days between 1896 and 1909 This is how films were shown throughout most of the land. It was traveling showmen like Charles Thurston with their bioscopes on village greens and shows in villa[…]
[…] already had some photographic experience?Eric Cross: Oh yes.Arthur Graham: What kind of reaction did you get from your parents on you going into the film industry?Eric Cross: They didn't worry about it at all. My father by that time was in Canada anyway, so it was only my mother that was interested[…]