[…]go Derek starting at the beginning when and where were you born.SPEAKER: M8I was born in Harwich Essex on 18th November 1938 and went to see my first film. Locals in the mob. At the age of approximately five years old. That film was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.SPEAKER: F1It attracted me even at […]
[…]tarted a radio business, which was very successful and I made a lot of money. I got a bit bored with it and I had a cousin who was making advertising films and he asked me if I'd like to join them. So I went in with them, with his two partners and him and we started in um - in fact what we did, do y[…]
Dallas Bower Side 1Alan Lawson  00:02Dallas Bower: producer, television director, television producer, sound recordist, film editor, drama producer.  Dallas, when and where were you born?Dallas Bower  00:19Kensington Hall Gardens, London 1907.Alan Lawson  00:2[…]
[…]lly new cinema. That's to say, the new wave. And that had a huge impact on me. And I decided there and then this is what I want to do. I want to make films. But how do I make films? Well, to start with, I was sort of lucky in a way because I went to the American centre where that where there was a d[…]
[…]      Transcript edited by Alan Masson 23/08/2019 with comments in [parenthesis] CR: How did your interest in film technology begin? What sparked that interest and how did it develop?AM: Yes. At the age of about 10 I was given a classic Kodak Box Brownie camer[…]
[…]your date of birth 4 July ...Vernon Sewell: 1903.Roy Fowler: Nineteen hundred and three right, OK. We're going to concentrate mostly on the film industry, but it would be interesting to know family background to some extent, where and when you entered this life, your parentage and such lik[…]
[…]nment History Project (formerly the ACTT History Project) and the right to publish some excerpts may not be allowed.CITATION: Women’s Work in British Film and Television, Daphne Shadwell, http://bufvc.ac.uk/bectu/oral-histories/bectu-oh [date accessed]By accessing this transcript, I confirm tha[…]
[…]e bit about your early life. But before you started your professional career in film. Where we were born into your parents. Yes quite well I was born in Lo[…]
[…]anner: Let's say it was in the very early 20s and it was in Tilford, Surrey.Roy Fowler: You were in a family which had connections with the film or entertainment business.Peter Tanner: None, my father died when I was very young and I was the only child and my mother had to bring me up[…]
[…]to have a governess from then onwards. And sometimes if you are in a theatre, in a show, you have to have lessons in the dressing room or down in the film studio. It was all quite fascinating, all thatLW: Did you appear in any films?WT: Not while I was very young, not until I was about 14. And then […]
