Karel Reisz

[…]r spoke to the school and asked whether they would take me on. I was 12 ½ then as a refugee. Because the British government was admitting children on condition there was a guarantor. And they did that[…]

Cynthia Moody

[…]                    1: You mean it was run by the British still?                      &nbs[…]

Denis Forman

[…]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[…]

Geoff Labram

[…]ly. In fact, if I may digress for a few seconds Gaumont Kalee which was a rank company part of rank film equipment was a company which had existed as British Acoustics for a great many years. And in my view was a very much underrated company. I believe they made first rate equipment. And if they had[…]

Richard (Dickie) Best

[…]u better write to him again. So she did and to cut a long story short aletter came saying would I go and see John Corfield at Golden Square, whichwas British National headquarters, I think it's now where the Granadabuilding is. I didn't know, what for so one November day in 1935 I wentup there and w[…]

Joe Busuttil

[…]to me and I had got this gladiator’s helmet and he said to me ‘what’s this?’  I said ‘it’s a gladiator’s helmet’ cause I had cobbled it from the British Museum.   ‘Oh that’s a funny sort of hat’.  I was a really stroppy git when I was a kid, I mean, I was really balshy, you know.[…]

John Schlesinger

[…] as a young Jewish kid felt quite persecuted at school. They would institute things like let's chase Schlesinger, it was a sort of pogrom. I mean the British have been nothing if not anti Semitic I think tradtionally. And I remember the sort of interest in German expressionist films at that tim[…]

Geoff Hermges

[…]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[…]

Anne Fleming

[…]nbsp;T Anne Fleming. Transcript. This transcript was originally produced automatically using Speechmatics, and has been edited by David Sharp for the British Entertainment History Project.This transcript has been edited to remove hesitation and repetition where it was felt that the speech recognitio[…]
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