[…]times a week! [Chuckles] Roy Fowler: Yes. In those days what kind of comparison, as a filmgoer, did you make between the Hollywood films and the British films? Andy Worker: Well they were all good - in fact they were all better than they are today I think. And you know, one had favourites […]
[…]ing of the war, we were evacuated. And then I was supposed to go to France to perfect my French because my grandfather was of French origin, although British Nationalised. And ofcourse, I never went to France to, to learn French properly, and ended up at Pitman’sCollege in Southampton Row, which I n[…]
[…]w: David Sharp Murray Weston: This is Friday 21st April, 2017 and this is interview number 699, with Taylor Downing and the recording is for the British Entertainment History Project. Hello Taylor. Taylor Downing: Welcome. MW: Thank you very much for having us here today. With all of […]
[…]truth, I was glad when I was able to get away from from Williamson's and start at the Pathe Laboratory which should just been built at Elstree by the British International picture Corporation Ralph Bond 8:20 this question of temperature Bert there was no such thing as temperature co[…]
[…]ilm Unit also had meetings where they would get hold of people to talk to us. And I got hold of Hugh Gray, who was the research at Gaumont British at Shepherds Bush. And it was through him that I was able to do anything at all on films because there's no training, no way of get[…]
[…]truth, I was glad when I was able to get away from from Williamson's and start at the Pathe Laboratory which should just been built at Elstree by the British International picture Corporation Ralph Bond 8:20 this question of temperature Bert there was no such thing as temperature co[…]
[…] Maurice Elvey was one of the most prolific directors in British cinema history, directing over 300 feature films between 1917 […]
The copyright of this interview lies with the \british Entertainment History Project Peter Scott – My name is Peter Graham Scott. I was born in 1923, er…October the 27th. In East Sheen, which is near Putney, and near Richmond. My mother and father were living – they’d just got married; well the[…]
[…]tries, we were going through our camera gear and everything was confiscated and we were threatened with jail. And it was only the intervention of the British High Commissioner in Nairobi that actually got us out of the situation, minus the rolls of film. But not an unusual story.Interviewer 17[…]
[…]and, near Stranra, a place called Portpatrick.SC: Your family is Scottish, do you feel Scottish yourself.CC: Yes I do, I'm against being English, I’m British. I feel at home in Scotland.SC: You’re very keen on fishing and you often goCC: That's another thing, no I like Scotland. I feel at home with […]
