[…]p;Sorry, I interrupted you. So did you. Do you have any brothers or sisters? No. And what was your first inclinations of feeling you're interested in film?Speaker 1  8:31  Well, I was first interested in presenting films at home. When I was about nine or 10 I hadn't got any thought of actu[…]
[…]p;Sorry, I interrupted you. So did you. Do you have any brothers or sisters? No. And what was your first inclinations of feeling you're interested in film?Speaker 1  8:31  Well, I was first interested in presenting films at home. When I was about nine or 10 I hadn't got any thought of actu[…]
[…]he bosses then were A.C. and R.C. Bromhead and the studio manager was Bernard Bromhead, and it was all in the family kind of thing, you know? And the film that was in production when I arrived there was Jack Buchanan and Betty Balfour, and I can't remember the name of the film but they were the two […]
[…]of this recording is vested in the ACTT history project we're interviewing Francis Cockburn I spell the name C O C K B U R N, who started life in the film industry as an editor became a producer and finally information officer interviewer is Margaret Thompson the date is the 16th of March 1990 side […]
[…] we’ve got to ask today. So, I wonder if you could just begin by giving an overview – if I can take you back slightly – in how your early interest in film and colour photography started. Where did that spark on interest come from?CF: I started out… my first work as such was for Kodak, and there was […]
[…]f school activities and interests, of which I didn't have any. [00:04:22] But and this really is how I started. Perhaps something that led up to filmmaking, rather before that, let me think when I was about 12 my sister went on a visit to Germany. She saw advertised that, that week or that day […]
[…]raham: Was this while you were still at school.Alan Lawson: I was still at school.Arthur Graham: So it was part time. What decided you to go into the film business.Alan Lawson: My sister was on the stage, she was a ballet dancer and I think when I was due to leave school which would have been July 1[…]
[…]pril 39, in London town and the sound of bow bells. So not quite a Cockney, but can you tell me a bit about your family and how you came to be in the film industry?Right. My family consisted of a father who was in the engineering business, who would started making his own films and when he was young[…]
[…]nbsp; 1:16  And what production was he gauging at the time, or Bobbi Riesel  1:22  he was, he wasn't making a film at the time. He had just made journey to England about a year or two years before, two years, oh, it was about that time actually weren't recordi[…]
[…]was Alexander corder that came to call basically and said he was he was Hungarian and the Jewish. I'd like you to write the music for this particular film. I can't remember the name of the film that film but he did a lot of films for Alexander Calder. And during that period of time from 1933 I mean […]
