[…]odness me! Yes!Pat Jackson: So that didn't help. So I was now sixteen, and I got, through a dear old friend of mine, Henry Blyth - who was one of the film critics on the Times, later on - brilliant chap! [NB: could be Henry Blyth, screenwriter, b 1911, who was co-writer of Jackson's Seven Keys in 19[…]
[…]gets and engineering and so forth, and I felt this was really a tremendous shock to me when he died. I started - as far as going into photography and filmmaking, when I was thirteen. I think for my bar mitzvah I received two box cameras, two cameras, and started with photography and set up a dark ro[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]chool, and having received my education there and then done quite a lot of photography, I then started on the first steps towards anything to do with films. In other words, I went to what was then known as boat court, the what was then the London College of photo engraving and lithography in Fleet S[…]
