Jill Craigie

[…]d to be the only one at that time - I wasn't the only one, I think Mary Field was making children's films, but somehow they said I was the only woman director... and young, very young, and looked rather frivolous... The press used to say things like "although she is very feminine and only 20, or wha[…]

John Dark

[…]ng for fixated for his nose. Well this we didn't know anyhow that wiped out the whole of the first day and the second day which ended up an assistant director. Because now with the tea we got a problem on our hands. Well he he came back as we had to send him to hospital because I was in the train a […]

Peter Dimmock

[…]basically very amateurish but I had an idea about it, I wanted to be a fighter pilot.  I was lucky but I knew I didn’t particularly want to be a bomber pilot because I just thought that would be boring, and so I was awfully lucky I got into Army Cooperation, which meant that I was on close supp[…]

Pete Murray

[…]There was a lot of them in those days, whereas there are only two now.  It was shown to everyone and they all put in a bid for it, including the BBC.  And Dora Bryan and I said please take the BBC.  We will take less money and we’ll do it on the BBC.  And, no, they wouldn’t.MIKE […]

Ted (Robert Edward) Newman

[…]ning, the the proprietor I presume, I think they call them Barker's in those days. He was on the front telling us with a megaphone, all the wonderful films we'd see if we went inside. There was a list of titles but the time we there were very provocative titles but not unlike it when he went into li[…]

Sarah Erulkar (de Normanville)

[…]ed.The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT history project. Sara de Normanville, professionally known as Sara Erulkar, documentary film director. Interviewer John Taylor. Recorded on the twenty-eighth of February 1991, with interjections by her husband, Peter (PdN). Side one.[00:34]Who[…]

Bill Girdlestone

[…]her. He was very good - he was on close-ups.Fowler/Lawson: What about Guy Green?Bill Girdlestone: I never did a picture with Guy, only as a director. Lovely, oh what a lovely boy. Iliked his work, he did that army film, didn't he.Fowler/Lawson: What do you think are the qualities of a[…]
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