[…]materialistic. You got a job immediately, you could work.Interviewer (unidentified): When did you get a job?Jill Craigie: Well I was working with the British Council, and that increased during the war.Interviewer (unidentified): How did that start?Jill Craigie: I wrote something and sent it in. I wa[…]
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[…]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 […]
[…]y SamuelsonInterviewee: Erica MastersTape 1, Side 1Sydney Samuelson: Well we're sitting here on the 2nd August 1995. We're in the meeting room of the British Film Commission, at 70, Baker Street in London, and the interviewee is no less than Miss Erica Masters, a legendary production person in our i[…]
[…]d from time to time as assistant for other cameramen. Other cameramen I worked for—I remember working for—were James Ritchie, later a producer at the British Rail Unit, and John Reed [UNVERIFIED], John R.F. Stewart, and Bill Pollard. It was with Bill Pollard I remember having possibly my most enjoya[…]
[…]oke, with the Schufftanprocess, very, very good shot for that periodRoy Fowler: The other famous one usually pointed to is one of the Hitchcocks, the BritishMuseum sequence in not Sabotage, I think it was SabotageMaurice Carter: Sabotage was made at the Bush, of course. Vetch and I worked on The39 S[…]
[…]there writing autographs, Deanna Durbin was there, Brian Aherne who was a flying instructor with Thunderbird Field was there, because he was training British pilots.John Taylor: You had wings by this time.Jimmy Gilbert: yes, I had two sets of wings.John Taylor: Why two sets.Jimmy Gilbert: You gradua[…]
