Charles Picken

[…]rated during my sojourn in Manchester I was able to anticipate a repetition during its normal run at Edinburgh. With the City due to stage the (then) British Commonwealth Games in the summer of 1970, it was agreed the premiere could double as a fund raiser for promoting this event and be staged on a[…]

Interview

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Elizabeth Furse (née Wolpert)

Elizabeth Furse DRAFT Tape 1 Side AThis 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). (201[…]

Leonard (Len) Harris

[…]eft school then?Leonard Harris: Oh yes that's right, well I always wanted to get into the film business and just before I was due to leave school the British Kinemograph Society arranged a course at the London Polytechnic, Regent Street, you know, for kinematography. A two-year course it was, every […]

Patrick (Paddy) Carey

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Vernon Sewell

[…]that for a very long time, that movie." But it did me a lot of good you see, it was the first major picture I made, you see.Roy Fowler: That was British National, was it not? The production, did they finance it, British National?Vernon Sewell: No, it was an Alexander Korda film.Roy Fowler:[…]

Adrian (Andy) Worker

[…]times a week! [Chuckles] Roy Fowler: Yes. In those days what kind of comparison, as a filmgoer, did you make between the Hollywood films and the British films? Andy Worker: Well they were all good - in fact they were all better than they are today I think. And you know, one had favourites […]

Ray Harryhausen

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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 […]

Bernard Gribble

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