Joe Busuttil

[…]to me and I had got this gladiator’s helmet and he said to me ‘what’s this?’  I said ‘it’s a gladiator’s helmet’ cause I had cobbled it from the British Museum.   ‘Oh that’s a funny sort of hat’.  I was a really stroppy git when I was a kid, I mean, I was really balshy, you know.[…]

Julia Cave

[…]04:00 [laugher] all together as it contained both sexes and  also it was the time when there were a lot of intermarriage between the Indians and British service people, and there were a lot of Anglo-Indian children at this school and they were very disturbed because if they happen to have come […]

Michael Colomb

[…]ovice crew to tear the set down. Taking big chunks out of the set. And always remember the the Americans the difference between the Americans and the British directors, British directors will never give up. They will always envisage the shot and shoot it as they envisage it. The Americans soon say a[…]

Emmanuel (Manny) Yospa

[…]I was interested in films all my life, I mean when ever any new Russian film came over or a new French film, I went to see it, and all the well known British and American films.Charles Drazin: Now at that time it was quite difficult to see Russian films, they were very much frowned upon.Manny Yospa:[…]

David Watkin

[…]ationalised; DW mentions Basil Sangster, cameraman; DW’s first job at Southern Rail was to catalogue their archive.00:12:00 – 00:23:30 DW moved on to British Transport Films, where he started as a messenger boy; he was sent to Hull during the making of Berth 24; during his time at Waterloo he had al[…]

Freddie Francis

[…]formation but information. And during this on one of my holidays I scrounged a visit to, I've forgotten the dear old publicity man's name, at Gaumont British in Lime Grove, can't remember his name, anyway I went and found the studio and there they were, they were shooting one of the Aldwych farces a[…]
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