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[…]TA award today, but it was before BAFTAs.JH: Yes, it was for The Wrong Box. In those days, the award for costume, all their awards were very much for British films. Things made here, so you didn’t have the whole wide open market to contend with. So I got it for The Wrong Box, which was the first fil[…]

[…]tter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.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[…]

[…]uld it be Bahrain.Alan Lawson: Yes. Bahrain and OmanMonty Berman: Yes, The Truthful Coast, I did a film about the Truthful Coast, wherethere were odd British troops, I'd sort of shoot them. And then I think they send me up toPalestine as it was then. I think we had an office in Jerusalem, I'm not su[…]

[…]I didn't. I wanted to go into the film industry from the age of twelve, and I went to see Jimmy Ritchie [James Ritchie], who later became the head of British Transport [Films]. But he was a young man, himself starting in the film industry at that time. And he was very discouraging and said that it w[…]

[…] Samuelson do you mean? Ella Mallett : No - Gaumont British. Roy Fowler : No sorry, you said Samuelson, did […]

The copyright of this interview lies with the \british Entertainment History ProjectInterview with Rosamund JohnInterviewer: Rodney Giesler RG: Could you tell me your background Rosamund, how you started acting and what was the situation?RJ: Well I don’t know why, I always wanted to be an actre[…]

[…]t Pathé Gazette.Yes, yes.It was called Pathé, well Pathé Freres as it was called.Yes, yes.It was opposite the cinema offices?That’s it, opposite British Lion.Y es.Who were the cameramen in during the war years for Pathé?Oscar Bovill.Y es.Jock Gemmell, Terry Ashwood. [Pause] Frank Bassill.Ken Go[…]

[…]th it. And if you like, what I knew better than Tesler did was that you can go on doing the same thing as long as you wrap it up a bit different. The British public don't, if they like a thing it's just a matter of finding a different way of presenting things.So anyway I can't pretend I was that con[…]