[…]t I did get an introduction to Elstree. There was a man who I think was still a name in the city, called Scringer and he was a director of Associated British Picture Corporation which as you all know was founded by John Maxwell. And I think at that time the Associated British had a rather large over[…]
[…]d from time to time as assistant for other cameramen. Other cameramen I worked for—I remember working for—were James Ritchie, later a producer at the British Rail Unit, and John Reed [UNVERIFIED], John R.F. Stewart, and Bill Pollard. It was with Bill Pollard I remember having possibly my most enjoya[…]
[…] 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 […]
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[…] worked as a journalist through the 1930s, she entered the British film industry as a documentary scriptwriter early in the […]
[…]both down. So somehow, how we did it I don't know, I wasn't quite the size I am now. So we got down, that was one of those things.We also went out to British Columbia to a small holding, there which was on the edge of the Pacific Ocean, and he had an orchard and a small field with some cows and he h[…]
[…] myself except for a short time I worked for the British Film Institute which I 've always felt very warmly about. And […]
[…]materialistic. You got a job immediately, you could work.Interviewer (unidentified): When did you get a job?Jill Craigie: Well I was working with the British Council, and that increased during the war.Interviewer (unidentified): How did that start?Jill Craigie: I wrote something and sent it in. I wa[…]
