[…]e head master said, you know, "Oh, you'll presumably go into a bank or something like that." So, I hadn't a clue what to do but I had an uncle in the film business and he said he could get me a job. And so I told this head master that I was going into the film business and he was absolutely astounde[…]
[…]nd my mother got us there because of the Red Cross. So I was vaguely with them then. But then I was called up. And then when I got ill, went into the BBC. So, you know, an awful lot of the time I was not at home ... Roy Fowler 33:36 Indeed. Jill Balcon 33:3[…]
[…] Lee who was directing films in those days.SC: He was directing at BIP [British International Pictures] and places.RP: Yes, he was quite a well-known director. He was making a film at Riverside and so I went there as a runner, generally seeing what it was all about. There was a picture being made&nb[…]
[…] E ric Cross (Lighting Camer aman – DOP) Career in film industry: 1926 to (circa) 1962 Credits include: Christmas Under […]
[…]ly with Donald Dewar who was the big Labour figure of the era and so we always managed to get the services of Donald Dewar on programmes ahead of the BBC. I was quite friendly - I'll rephrase that - I knew Alex Salmond quite well. Friendly would be over-stating it. And he would always, for example o[…]
[…]called David Dunbar American director of wore a big Stetson hat and was marvellous at throwing knives and things like that. But he wasn't a very good director. Not at someone, not at people he used to throw them at playing cards and was fascinating. I mean, he you know, he twirled his six guns and t[…]
[…]t, Queenie Turner christened Alice May. Laboratory worker, neg and pos, pos , assembler, negcutter and finally librarian of The Imperial War Museum’s Film Archives.Interviewers Alan Lawson and Syd Wilson. Recorded on the twenty-seventh of April 1993. Side One.Right well first and foremost when and w[…]
