[…]ifferent parts of the studio, you see? ROY FOWLER: It was one large stage?HARRY MILLER: Yes, well they had two very large. This was British International Pictures, Elstree, and you’d have three units, a Hitchcock and, I can’t remember at the moment, Monty Banks, Wilcox, all the old[…]
[…] B&D was largely destroyed and quite a large part of British International Pictures next door, by the fire, the Ostrer[?] fire of […]
[…]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[…]
[…]oming back to this country, because of family illness I eventually got married at a time when I just managed to get a job with BIP, you know, the old British International Picturesat Elstree.R. F. Tell us how you set about that? Had you become a film buff, a film fan. Did you go to films a great dea[…]
[…]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 […]
[…] and said you take over the company. At the same time one morning he had telephoned Noel Coward and said to him he wanted to make a picture about the British navy, an you imagine the situation, an Italian in this country during the war telephoning Noel Coward, and Noel Coward intrigued by this man w[…]
[…]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 […]
[…] filmgoer, did you make between the Hollywood films and the British films? Andy Worker: Well they were all good - […]
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The copyright of this interview lies with the British Entertainment History ProjectCornel Lucas – Transcribed by Linda Marchant28/09/2005Copyright interview – BECTU history project - Interview number 543.Recording 15.05 (AP – anonymous person audience)Interviewer: Cornel we’re here at BECTU he[…]
