Johnny (Johnny) Goodman

[…]is name now. [NB. Possibly John Gilling] But Riverside Studios again, and I started - Deadly Nightshade, the film? But I worked on a number of second features as a first assistant. Alan Sapper: And what year was this? Johnny Goodman: Well I came back from America towards the end of '52, so it […]

Charles Bennett

[…] Anyway, there was a lovely, lovely, lovely girl playing the second part called Jane Baxter. I was doing the awful thing of writing just ahead of the camera. The assistant director would come up and say, "got any pages for Mr. Elvey down there" - Maurice Elvey, the director. Anyway, one day Claude R[…]

Marion Grierson (Taylor)

Interview with Marion GriersonInterviewer: Margaret Thompson MT: This is Margaret Thompson interviewing Marion Grierson; documentary film director, editor reporter, literary editor and writer.these were the professions that she followed in the early years of documentary filmmaking. She later we[…]

Bruce Anderson

[…]some senses, but the way the industry is going in terms of broadcasting, to me, can be paralleled to the time when George Eastman developed his Kodak camera. Up to then, you had to have a plate camera. It was cumbersome. It was difficult, very hard, to cope with the moment he invented his camera wit[…]

Roy Parkinson

Roy Parkinson: BECTU Interview Part 1The copyright of this recording and transcript is vested in the BECTU History Project. Roy Parkinson was interviewed by Sid Cole in 1987.1. On his father H.B. ParkinsonRP: I was born in Surbiton, 22nd January 1916, and my father at that time was a cinema manager.[…]

Cy Young transcript

[…] ambitious.And we were to use a lot of the Hollywood features that were purchased for transmission just on a promotional […]

Michael Houldey

BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Speechmatics.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[…]

Cy Young

[…]ow when it went on channel 4 this time. That's on channel 4 became longer of the channel for more ambitious.And we were to use a lot of the Hollywood features that were purchased for transmission just on a promotional basis without paying. So that. Changed the nature of the program tonight. Was a bi[…]

Peter Graham Scott

The copyright of this interview lies with the \british Entertainment History Project Peter Scott – My name is Peter Graham Scott. I was born in 1923, er…October the 27th. In East Sheen, which is near Putney, and near Richmond. My mother and father were living – they’d just got married; well the[…]
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