[…] I'll go back now to the States. Well, after a while, and mother got herself a job. It was some secret work. I don't know what it was. It was for the British purchasing commission in New York. And that afforded her enough to get a small flat, which we did, which was on Lexington Avenue, overlooking […]
[…]hat's a technical job is it?11:08  DMW: No. Thank you for the question.NS: Please explain, yes.DMW: This is the elitist snobbery thing about the British. The establishment. Had I been to the wrong interviewer, I would have become a Junior Programme Engineer doing the same job. But because appar[…]
[…]r spoke to the school and asked whether they would take me on. I was 12 ½ then as a refugee. Because the British government was admitting children on condition there was a guarantor. And they did that[…]
[…]there writing autographs, Deanna Durbin was there, Brian Aherne who was a flying instructor with Thunderbird Field was there, because he was training British pilots.John Taylor: You had wings by this time.Jimmy Gilbert: yes, I had two sets of wings.John Taylor: Why two sets.Jimmy Gilbert: You gradua[…]
[…]00:00:00PF: This is an interview with Simon Lund from Cineric, New York, conducted on Skype by Paul Frith as part of the ‘Eastmancolor Revolution and British Cinema’ project, on 16 February 2018. So, thank you for agreeing to take part in this Simon. To begin with if we could talk a little bit about[…]
[…]ly. In fact, if I may digress for a few seconds Gaumont Kalee which was a rank company part of rank film equipment was a company which had existed as British Acoustics for a great many years. And in my view was a very much underrated company. I believe they made first rate equipment. And if they had[…]
[…]ested in the ACTT History Project. The Subject is Angela Allen interviewed by Linda Wood, November 27th 1990, File 168Honorary Member of the Guild of British Camera Technicians (GBCT) and was awarded the MBE (Member of the British Empire) in the Queen's New Year’s Honour's List in 1996. Film ti[…]
[…]hich I went to the Architectural Association, where I did a 5-year course in architecture and in 1928 I became an associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Uh, during the time I was a student, I happened to be walking to the Tube one day with a friend of my father's, another doctor, an[…]
