[…]we want you to go to Paris because the Free French are going into Paris and there is nobody there to represent them, there is nobody to represent the British and it will all be Americans. So join up with such and such a detachment at Romboyet.I think there were about half a dozen of us we went and j[…]
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[…]OF CAROL OWENS INTERVIEW BEHP – REVISED BY COCarol Owens - IntervieweePaul Collard - Interviewer29th November 2017SPEAKER: M3 [Paul Collard]This is a British Entertainment History Project interview with Carol Owens at home in Ealing. The date is the twenty ninth of November 2017. The camera operator[…]
[…]laboratory, and this was how we got the things out in ahead of the picture.Y es.Otherwise it was impossible. But of course, it was, this was just the British offshoot. I mean in the, the American side had been doing it for an awful long time.Oh they had been going some years?Oh the American company […]
[…]re the cinemas like, and how much did you have to pay to get in?Dicky Leeman: Well I can remember, at a later period when I was an actor, the Gaumont-British up in Kilburn - because I lived in Golders Green - if it was a very wet day, I would go round the agents looking for a job, and then in the af[…]
[…] explained it all.Roy Fowler: Had you had direction of that quality in the films that you had made before that? [Chuckles] Films directed by the British people?Joan Kemp-Welch: I can't remember the - Herbert Wilcox, who I made about five films for - he was also a marvellous director. And t[…]
[…]eally remember what I did for them. I did a few horror films, a few horror filmsand a few small films, and then I sort of settled at ABPC [Associated British Picture Corporation] as it was then, as their permanent script girl, and did The Saint for two years.The Avengers for a year or[…]
This recording is the copyright of the British Entertainment History Project. The transcript is not verbatim.Interviewer Roy Fowler. Interview Date: 18th August 1988.SIDE 1, TAPE 1Roy Fowler: You've been in this country 50 years now.Robert Beatty: More now, I came over in 1937. I went to Toronto for[…]
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[…]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[…]
