John Box

[…]as asked to stay in the army after the war but went back to studying architecture; JB talks about his tank regiment; JB had always been interested in films so approached a costume designer his uncle knew, who then introduced him to designer John Brown; JB was then sent to Edward Carrick, supervising[…]

Harry Manley

[…]ual labs did their own negotiations; only 35 staff working at Perivale at time of interview; HM took retirement in 1989 then went to BAFTA as finance director.00:25:12 – 00:34:26 Universal labs came in as a rival to CFS; 16mm wasn’t considered ‘professional’; they had very few personal customers but[…]

Nick Ardizzone

[…]king at Shepperton. And heknew of a small documentary company who in the summer of nine, what was his name? Michael Grey, he was he was the assistant director. And he said that they were absolutely unable to find anybody to hold a hand lamp on on a documentary they were working on. So I was asked to[…]

Gordon Courcha

[…]own Speaker  5:58  that BBC had lost a lot of staff to ITV, of course, because there was nowhere else to recruit them from. So I joined the BBC.Unknown Speaker  6:09  It turned out not to really be my cup of tea, it was very formal. If you met somebody new that almost the first t[…]

Jocelyn Rickards

[…]5 – 00:43:30 By 1950, JR is still painting; she talks about some of the paintings sold during this period; Loudon Sainthill was asked to storyboard a film version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for which he sought the help of JR and Margaret Olley; JR discusses some of her other activities during this[…]
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