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[…] Legard: They shot everything on 35mm, as we did at British Transport Except the colour travel films. Those were shot […]

BEHP Interview No 0726t Roger Smither (RS). Transcript. Interviewer: Murray Weston (MW). MW: This interview is No 726 for the British Entertainment History Project. The subject, the interviewee, is Roger Smither, and I’m Murray Weston, interviewing.Now Roger, we start as with most of these[…]

[…]here were you born?Lindsay Anderson: I was born on April 17th, 1923 in Bangalore, South India in the military hospital, I think. My father was in the British army in India, the Queen Victoria's Own, the Royal Engineers. My mother was half Scottish, her mother was Scottish and her father was English.[…]

[…] perhaps 1950, something like that, to go to the revitalised British Film Institute which Denis Forman had been appointed to and had […]

[…]ts but I didn’t anyway.And then, and I think it must have been after he left that he rang up and I couldn’t gobecause he was offered a job at Gaumont British Instructional and he went to work in the cutting rooms and the library was a lot duller.Was that Mary Fields?That’s right, yes, and he was, th[…]

[…] actually written the story ‘cause he showed it at the British Film Institute recently and he’s showing it again soon somewhere else. […]

[…]the cleaners in the morning who were taking out the sweet wrappers and things and all they had to do was to prove that they had shown that film, that British film, in their cinema.And um, er he certainly must have got back in by writing, producing, directing and editing some Quota Quickies and in fa[…]

Chili BouchierChili Bouchier (1909-1999) was a British film actress, after working as a model for Harrods, she won a Daily Mail competition to become a film star. Her films included Shooting Stars (1927), The Return of Carole Deane (1938) and Dead Lucky (1960). I: 29th of May 1996 we are at BECT[…]

[…]at which point Alex sacked us all - or at least all the lower grades - because they were moving to Denham. So, October 1935 I got myself a job at Fox-British, again in the publicity department, with a very very clever young man called Geoff Davis who did the most wonderful cartoons. And our chief jo[…]

[…]and we managed to get him in a uniform. So it was a most charming film, produced by Launder and Gilliat, the famous producers of many, many brilliant British films.[56] But we also did The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957),[57] an American production at MGM. Jennifer Jones[58] played Elizabeth Barre[…]