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[…] Transcription Date: Unknown - draft analytical transcription by Sarah Easen, British Universities Film and Video Council Interview Date: 1987-09-16 Interviewer: […]

[…]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[…]

[…]which was a little bit it wasn't it wasn't much but it sparked the whole business off, you know, and he's got me a job. As an apprentice with Gaumont British that the Shepherds Bush Pavilion, which was in the largest in modern Europe.And 3000 seater, and I worked for the UN I put out in the care of […]

[…]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[…]