[…]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.[…]
[…] there was a fellow there, a young boy about the same age as me, who did, I think he had a relation there, anyway he got a job at Lime Grove, Gaumont British, clappers, very junior, but in the camera department. That sort of spurred me on, I thought well I must get a job like that. And then of cours[…]
[…]ewee: Maurice Elvey Tape 1, Side 1Ralph Bond : This is a tape-recorded interview with Maurice Elvey, who is certainly one of the pioneers of the British film industry. Even the doyen of the British film industry. During his lifetime, Maurice has made at least 150 films. Maurice, I gather you we[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 101[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: Unknown - draft analytical transcription by Sarah Easen, British Universities Film and Video CouncilInterview Date: 1989-09-25Interviewer: Roy FowlerInterviewee: Norman FisherTape 1, Side 1Roy Fowler: Copyright of the foll[…]
[…]of events, but I certainly at some point along the line there, I did some work for, I think it was called GB-I. What was that...Stephen Peet: Gaumont British Instructional.Philip Leacock: Yes. And they were very anti-union. Now that's the first thing I really remember, it was recruiting ACT members […]
