Sheila Collins

This recording was transcribed by funds from the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, University of Leeds) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University). (2015).BECTU History Project Interview […]

Winston (Wyn) Ryder

[…]check densities – Beaconsfield I learned an awful lot, because we had our own little lab, which when the studio wasn’t working did release prints for British Lion, for oh what was his name, Smith.LH: Herbert Smith?WR: No Herbert was the younger brother, big brother[?] they had quite a good distribut[…]

Bill Girdlestone

[…]dn't go to Denham till 1950 and after three or four years they made me Chief Contact.Tape 1, Side 2Fowler/Lawson: In those early days of Gaumont British at the Bush, what kind of pressures were on the cameramen, well, also on yourself? Let's talk about you first. What kind of pressures did you […]

Charles Cooper

[…] Cole: Because Sevastopol was the siege wasn't it, by the British and French armies? Charles Cooper: The siege of Sevastopol, […]

Alf Tunwell – Transcript

[…] returned to newsreel photography in 1929 at the newly formed British Movietone News, and during WWII he joined the Canadian […]

denis-forman

[…] of Mecca of the revivalist movement to try and get British Infantry tactics into some shape and there were about […]

HP0024 Sheila Collins – Transcript

[…] transcribed by funds from the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie […]

Links & Resources

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