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[…] 16 Leonard Sachs (1909 -1990) was a South African born British actor. Is films included Face in the Night (1957) […]

[…]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[…]

[…]y films on at BIP, we couldn't have had much stage space, I can't remember exactly how much we had.John Legard: That sounds quite a healthy period in British filmmaking...Peggy Gick: It was very busy, yes.John Legard: ...in 1935 we're talking about, '34, '35?Peggy Gick: [???] Then I went to [Walton […]

[…] university at Biarritz, an American university, that the Americans had established for members of their forces, that gave some guest scholarships to British servicemen, and I was lucky enough to go there, and I did a six month course of journalism there.  I was invited to go to the University […]

[…] 14 of course I was choreographing a film called, which was quite interesting, a film called Pagliacci, and I think I'm right, I think it's the first British film ever to have any colour in it.LW: Richard Tauber. Yes, it's got a sequence in colour at the end and at the beginningWT: Do you remember y[…]

[…]omplain too much to me! I'm sure he disapproved most emphatically about it, but anyway they tolerated it. And so I was just sixteen when I started at British & Dominions at Elstree.Alan Lawson : How did you get the job?Gordon McCallum : By writing...that's all. My father did know somebody in the[…]

[…] 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[…]

[…] PM BIOGRAPHY: Len Harris trained as a Cameraman in the British Kinematograph Society’s course at the London Polytechnic, Regent Street, […]

[…] t y p i c a l o f the British film industry in the early, middle 30s. Peter Tanner: […]

[…]on: What was the name of the company?Cyril Pennington-Richards: It was Industrial and General Film Laboratories, and another company called British Empire Films. We bought George Humphries' business for a hundred and sixty pounds and...Alan Lawson: That was the titling business?Cyril […]