[…]d she had - amongst many of her clients - she had a lady whose husband happened to be at that time the general sales manager of a film company called British Lion Film Corporation. And Sidney Myers was looking, or somebody within British Lion was looking for some young blood, and Mrs Myers happened […]
[…]m Unit", "TIDA", and making films about Britain for sending abroad. You can go by its title, and. [00:14:30] I: It's kind of a forerunner of the British Council? [00:14:33] Yes indeed. And on the staff there working was Alan Izod as editor. Margaret Thompson as editor, Frank Bundy as occas[…]
[…]y films on at BIP, we couldn't have had much stage space, I can't remember exactly how much we had.John Legard: That sounds quite a healthy period in British filmmaking...Peggy Gick: It was very busy, yes.John Legard: ...in 1935 we're talking about, '34, '35?Peggy Gick: [???] Then I went to [Walton […]
[…] 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 […]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 381 The Copyright of this interview with Larry Allen is the copyright of the British Entertainment History Project. To use contach the Secretary Sue Malden sue.malden@btinternet.com  Transcription Date: 2002-07-08Interview Date: 1996-04-11&nb[…]
[…] Anyway, sorry. But just an interesting point, because I always recall was such a pleasure leaving Crown  film in it and joining Edgar Anstey at British Transport  films in Savile Row where everything was on safety stock, so didn't have to worry about yeah, that's always wonderful. lovelyl[…]
[…] 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 […]
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[…]t I did get an introduction to Elstree. There was a man who I think was still a name in the city, called Scringer and he was a director of Associated British Picture Corporation which as you all know was founded by John Maxwell. And I think at that time the Associated British had a rather large over[…]
[…]I was interested in films all my life, I mean when ever any new Russian film came over or a new French film, I went to see it, and all the well known British and American films.Charles Drazin: Now at that time it was quite difficult to see Russian films, they were very much frowned upon.Manny Yospa:[…]
