Gawn Grainger

[…]it was a hit – you can smell success. Then Franco turned up and out of all this mish-mash it was a huge hit, and he won the Best Director of the Year Award! [Much laughter] So, it was an experience. But then I worked with him again, in what about ten or fifteen years ago in a play called Absolutely![…]

Cy Young

[…] good story about the importance of black culture in the West Indies and elsewhere on this country. And thatmovie was in the last three for the Focal Awards that year. And. So wedidn't get them gong but we got to the dinner. So that was nice. A good relationship with producerGary Hughes. And then we[…]

Erica Masters

[…]la to see it and to take my son, Tony there, but I didn't live there.Sydney Samuelson: And where did you come to from Guatemala?Erica Masters: I came for a time to Hamburg and then I was put into a sort of institute for girls in Switzerland, where I spent about ten years going to school and living t[…]

Charles Bennett

[…]ors about a thousand pounds a share, and that sort of thing! So, I never made a picture for Robert Clark.Arnold Schwartzman : You received an Academy Award nomination for 'Foreign Correspondent', and was that the same year that 'The Great Dictator' was also nominated?Charles Bennett : Yes, that got […]

Kenneth Griffith

[…]nbsp;0:00  The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Kenneth Griffith, actor in feature films, producer and performer in television documentary programmes.  Interviewer Colin Moffat 23rd of April 1990. Colin Moffat  0:22  Kenn[…]

Tessa Idlewine

[…]And then from that working on preserving the films themselves, so that’s both photochemical and digital. We still do, try to do, mostly photochemical for most projects. So that’s making new pre-print elements, new prints on 16mm or 35mm and then going on to do digital preservation as well, so 2K or […]

Sarah Erulkar (de Normanville)

[…]mpany was that?That was Rayant.That was again Rayant?Yes, yes.Was that in colour?Yes, yes. That was ’68.[both speaking together]I remember it won the award. I remember watching on television.Ah. [laughter] No, I don’t think... it was cut out.I’ve never been so cross in my life because they rushed yo[…]

Muriel Box (Gardiner) (née Baker)

[…] here recording you because we've both (Alan and I) read that fascinating autobiography of yours, so I won't ask you very much about the early days before you were in films, but you were born in 1905, which makes you a bit older than me, but did your family have any connection with the entertainment[…]

Joy Batchelor

[…]wers: Jim ShieldsInterviewee: Kay Mander  Kay Mander: Joy, could we start with when and where you were born?Joy Batchelor: I was born in Watford, and at the time it was a little market town, and now nobody would know it, including me. It's horrible, perfectly foul.Unknown interviewer, poss[…]
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