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[…]TA award today, but it was before BAFTAs.JH: Yes, it was for The Wrong Box. In those days, the award for costume, all their awards were very much for British films. Things made here, so you didn’t have the whole wide open market to contend with. So I got it for The Wrong Box, which was the first fil[…]

[…]er by General Electrical Company in 1967; Grosvenor Place premises were closed; BN was made redundant and offered a job cataloguing film equipment at British Rail but went to BISFA as a press and conference officer; BISFA started out as BIFA (Scientific Film Association later merged); the highlight […]

[…]tries, we were going through our camera gear and everything was confiscated and we were threatened with jail. And it was only the intervention of the British High Commissioner in Nairobi that actually got us out of the situation, minus the rolls of film. But not an unusual story.Interviewer  17[…]

[…]y films on at BIP, we couldn't have had much stage space, I can't remember exactly how much we had.John Legard: That sounds quite a healthy period in British filmmaking...Peggy Gick: It was very busy, yes.John Legard: ...in 1935 we're talking about, '34, '35?Peggy Gick: [???] Then I went to [Walton […]

[…]ional’; they had very few personal customers but a lot of film units set up for companies who believed they could produce their own industrial films; British Transport Films started on 16mm Kodak reversal in 1953/4 for their travelogue films which were then blown up to Technicolor; the BBC never use[…]