[…]I'm afraid I can't remember. I believe it was pretty much of a solo effort. I mentioned moving images because further on I saw an advertisement for a film projector complete with film and battery for 12 s. and 6d so I had to save up all my pocket money which I think in those days was sixpence a week[…]
[…]ly have to go to get some silks or things for lampshades or things, or different things for the set, you know? And that was my first job in the film industry.ALAN LAWSON: So really your transport problem was partly solved then of getting to Elstree?HARRY MILLER: Not really, I still had to catc[…]
[…]stree in 1940, 41, they were all a bit astounded because this was the first genuine cockney voice they heard. Because all those kids who were in this film came from acting school. Where it seemed to me, they were deemed to have the great talent taken out of them. In other words, the way they normall[…]
Chili BouchierChili Bouchier (1909-1999) was a British film actress, after working as a model forHarrods, she won a Daily Mail competition to become a film star. Her films included Shooting Stars (1927), The Return of Carole Deane (1938) and Dead Lucky (1960).I: 29th of May 1996 we are at BECTU head[…]
[…]hrough my brother I went and got the jobRoy Fowler: How did your brother connect with Alfred JungeMaurice Carter: He was assistant to Alfred Junge on films like xxxRoy Fowler: Although trained as an architect he was in the film industryMaurice Carter: He was a draughtsman, and the need was for / dra[…]
[…]he was very talented, when she wasn’t working for Edgar Wallace, mainly in the theatre,LH: Edgar Wallace, apart from being a writer, was presumably a film director-WR: Well for some time – I was so young Les that I don’t really know – he almost took over Beaconsfield Studios, which we were living al[…]
[…]ker  0:06  The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project.Unknown Speaker  0:13  John Sherman, documentary film producer, filmmaker, interviewer, Alan Lawson, on the 26thUnknown Speaker  0:23  of October,Unknown Speaker  0:26  side one.U[…]
[…]orest of Dean, in Gloucestershire. And my father was a mining engineer [pause] and 1:01 there was a colliery nearby my mother had been in early films. In fact, she played parts in early films and her name was Magarey Lorring, for those films.Norman Swallow: Is that Loring?Julia Cave: Lor[…]
[…] Ipswich public school. But we were taken to the cinema but rarely our parents who both was religious I had an elder sister and a younger brother for films  that they considered a suitable to see with cheddar kitten? in the jungle, things like that. Anything dramatic, romantic and so on was for[…]
JOHN SCHLESINGER Feature film director Interviewer Norman Swallow, recorded on 30 March 1994 Copyright of the recording is vested in BECTU History Project SIDE 1, TAPE 1 Norman Swallow: Let's go back to day one, when where you born and where. John Schlesinger: I was bor[…]
