[…]ery much a second feature, and it made quite a hit in really being a filler. I don't know if it would be interesting just to read what was said, 'The British short film Doss House is to my mind the best cinema - entertainment in London this week, I suggest if you're still distrustful of British film[…]
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[…]istic work, but I think it was probably the right choice for the film anyway to make it look real. And I guess I have to recognise that everything in British cinema surrounding me at that time, everything I liked was in the same manner, shot in the same manner, naturalistically. Mostly, not everythi[…]
[…]which was to revise and reform Infantry tactics, it was set up at Barnard Castle.That was the sort of Mecca of the revivalist movement to try and get British Infantry tactics intosome shape and there were about eight of us and I was appointed Commandant of the Battle Schoolin Orkney in Shetland defe[…]
[…]m Unit", "TIDA", and making films about Britain for sending abroad. You can go by its title, and. [00:14:30] I: It's kind of a forerunner of the British Council? [00:14:33] Yes indeed. And on the staff there working was Alan Izod as editor. Margaret Thompson as editor, Frank Bundy as occas[…]
[…] advantage I was really inspired by Frank Capra's Why We Fight the series, which was to mine mine the model of what what I would do but from from the British point of view. And this was I think, where an editor did come in I mean, I thought thought that this was an opportunity for an answer is that […]
[…]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 […]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 381 The Copyright of this interview with Larry Allen is the copyright of the British Entertainment History Project. To use contach the Secretary Sue Malden sue.malden@btinternet.com  Transcription Date: 2002-07-08Interview Date: 1996-04-11&nb[…]
[…]eft school then?Leonard Harris: Oh yes that's right, well I always wanted to get into the film business and just before I was due to leave school the British Kinemograph Society arranged a course at the London Polytechnic, Regent Street, you know, for kinematography. A two-year course it was, every […]
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