Roy Fowler

[…]ctor who ever lived.  One would be there on the set and listen to him, a Hungarian who was not very good at English giving line readings to British actors, you know it was a bit of a revelation and they would look at him but they did do their best.  I don’t know if you know much […]

David Robson

[…]was - we had very ancient equipment, it was Gaumont Chronos.Alan Lawson: Blimey!David Robson: They were originally designed for the silent days, with British Acoustic pull-through sound heads on the bottom. Lovely. That part of it was lovely. And a 25 amp - so low-intensity - arcs and the front shut[…]

Jan Zilliacus

[…] people thatI knew, people got bombed out came and stayed, in the end I was cooking for sixteen people .[30:48]Mm, oh.Because of course, not having a British father and mother in those, during the war youwouldn’t perhaps remember all this, you’re not old enough to but you had to have aBritish father[…]

Charlotte Jennings

[…] I'll go back now to the States. Well, after a while, and mother got herself a job. It was some secret work. I don't know what it was. It was for the British purchasing commission in New York. And that afforded her enough to get a small flat, which we did, which was on Lexington Avenue, overlooking […]

Frances Cockburn

[…] 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 […]

Reg Sutton

BECTU History Project - Interview No. 17 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: Unknown - draft analytical transcription by Sarah Easen, British Universities Film and Video CouncilInterview Date: 1987-09-16Interviewer: Roy FowlerInterviewee: Reg SuttonSound recordist: Taffy HainesTape 1, Side 1&n[…]
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