[…]check densities – Beaconsfield I learned an awful lot, because we had our own little lab, which when the studio wasn’t working did release prints for British Lion, for oh what was his name, Smith.LH: Herbert Smith?WR: No Herbert was the younger brother, big brother[?] they had quite a good distribut[…]
[…]cript has been produced automatically using Speechmatics.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this interview.However, the BEHP wants t[…]
[…] world. I um...Sidney Cole: You made for London then, did you?Bernard Vorhaus: Yes. And I was offered a job as a production assistant for a company - British Talking Pictures - it was - it was an offshoot, they had Wembley Studios.Sidney Cole: That's right, I remember, yes.Bernard Vorhaus: And -Sidn[…]
[…]cript has been produced automatically using Speechmatics.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this interview.However, the BEHP wants t[…]
[…]ell I'll go back and check with him because I think I'm screwing up and this is the head of production of Fox talking to me. I mean I just the humble British cameramen over there to make a film. And I find myself in this position but the they were so frightened of him. I went back to John and said t[…]
[…]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[…]
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[…]
[…]ot, that showed something powerful about the... did you ever try to get it onto the newsreels?Ivor Montagu : We did. We took film of the bombing of a British ship that took food to the Basque country in the later stages of the Spanish war, when there were heavy food shortages in part of Republican S[…]
[…]l Film Center was formed when he remained in charge and then he was Film Centre and then Arthur became involved as well, I suppose really when he was British Transport Films, the end of the war, Arthur came back and they must have formed Film Centre then because this Approach to Science film I was m[…]
[…] and they've got to learn with me the right way.Roy Fowler: You make your beginnings sound very quixotic, would you say they were typical of the British film industry in the early, middle 30s.Peter Tanner: I really don't know. I can only speak for myself.Roy Fowler: Have you ever read[…]
