Larry Allen

[…]ves. Do you know, a fortnight after that, perhaps a little longer, I don't know - it might have been a month after that - we had one siren go and one bomber came over, and it hit that shelter direct! That's amazing isn't it?Rodney Giesler: Terrible.Larry Allen: That's terrible. They couldn't even fi[…]

John Wiles

[…]ing the film, charming young lady, charming young lady. There was Pennington Richards, who was the camera man. there was Lesley Hughes, his assistant director. And the main purpose of the visit was Stanley Spencer. So he was in, in the shipyards doing the drawings for the ministry of information. It[…]

Barbara K Emary

[…]terview with Barbara Emary, in her home, 5th July 1988Interviewer Bob AllenSIDE 1, TAPE 1BA : Perhaps you could tell us when you first ca me into the film industry, how you got interested in filmmaking, what lead you - into it.BE: The most interesting thing is that as a teenager I was all against fi[…]

Bob Jordan

[…]ated transcription service, supplied by John Harwood and edited by David Sharp in 2019. The numbers in square brackets are timecodes. [Filming began outside]Interviewer: Jimmie King. David Woodward on camera.[TAPE 1] Jimmie King [JK]: If you’d like to introduce yourself Bob.[…]

Teddy Darvas

[…]ing opposite him. He had had quite a few to drink and Alan started the news bulletin and said 'Last night, the Royal Air Force carried out a thousand bomber raid over Hamburg. Preliminary reconnaissance photographs show that there are thousands of hamburgers streaming out of the city'. And he looked[…]

Phil Windeatt

[…]y going out which we struck over. The Home Secretary actually stopped the BBC from putting that show, that show out and there was a picket of ITN and BBC. So, yes, it was a lively period. So for you it wasn’t just about membership it was also about being active? Yeah, of yeah. And of cours[…]

Peter Sargent

[…]use tape-recording wasn't even invented in those days and so they had to record on film if they wanted to repeat it, so that's the way I got into the BBC.DB. The maiden flight of Concorde... That sounds quite... When did Concorde begin to fly...MS. About 25 years ago, wasn't it?DB. 1 thought so... 1[…]

Jean Anderson

[…]g in The King and I, very lovely girl. Never mind. John Legard: Not Virginia McKenna ?Jean Anderson:  No, because I worked with Virginia in films quite a lot.  No, Virginia McKenna also played it, so, no, can’t remember.Margaret Thomson: So at the moment, in a chronological sense, you[…]

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[…] of sound and colour (particularly Technicolor) presented to the art director. Williams recalls his involvement with David Rawnsley and the Independent […]

Sheila Collins

[…]le Time, there was South of Algiers, Appointment in Londonwas probably one of the ones that lasted a bit better, that was the one about the bomber command which was written by John Wooldridge, who actually was a composer, but he was an ex-RAF man, as indeed Aubrey Baring was, and I remembe[…]
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