Margaret Dale

[…] pitched their tents, took up their tents and went to so and so. We had a very long and quite successful tour under those conditions. In May 1940 the British Council sent us to Holland. We were there when The Germans decided to join. So that was my only experience of being a refugee. Quite exciting![…]

Joan Kemp-Welch

[…] explained it all.Roy Fowler: Had you had direction of that quality in the films that you had made before that? [Chuckles] Films directed by the British people?Joan Kemp-Welch: I can't remember the - Herbert Wilcox, who I made about five films for - he was also a marvellous director. And t[…]

John Allen

[…] Canadian battery a Canadian regiment again they were very generous. The Canadians they obviously all were equipped and supplied much better than the British Army. They had plenty of cigarettes and plenty of booze and all this sort of thing which they shared with the studio quite happily. And then w[…]

Peter de Normanville

[…]ional scientific.Peter de Normanville  19:55  I'll fill that in later. I can't remember. Anyway, I won it quite a few times. It was for the British Association for the Advancement of Science. I won it quite a few times, I had a rather soft habit. And on one occasion, the presentation was m[…]

Sam Williams

[…]truth, I was glad when I was able to get away from from Williamson's and start at the Pathe Laboratory which should just been built at Elstree by the British International picture Corporation Ralph Bond  8:20  this question of temperature Bert there was no such thing as temperature co[…]

Fred Tomlin

[…]res, of course he knew us.Bob Allen: [Looking at another picture] And that's a little group of the sound crew round a sound truck which you say had a British Acoustic? [Tape distortion]Fred Tomlin: That's right, British Acoustic, yeah.Bob Allen: Bill Salter.... [tape distortion - indecipherable for […]
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