Vernon Sewell

[…] Because I was given all sorts of jobs and I was anti- submarine vessel and all sorts of things I did. And during this very [?], on patrol out in the channel, when Mickey said - well Mickey had made 'One of our Aircraft is Missing' a propaganda film for the Dutch. And it was really very good, with G[…]

Richard (Dickie) Best

[…]t is purely, more or less, a video unit.Film hardly comes into it at all, probably only if it's commissioned.They have just made a film promoting the Channel Tunnel which is by theChannel Tunnel Consortium and that is made on film. But they'rebasically down to video, they don't even possess a cuttin[…]

Brian Pritchard

[…]for that was television because television got to the point where they were prepared to buy anything. They need product because, if you look how many channels there are now, they buy anything. And the BBC told us as a lab once, “Any film you’ve got, we’ll buy, and we don’t care if you don’t know who[…]

Jack Gold

[…]talking about the crates of Guinness, I remember that I was given by Kenneth Adam, who was then the Head of Programmes … JG Yep NS Only one channel of course. I think he gave me £300 to … AL To make it NS To contribute to it. And the pattern was, other things, other people, Bob S[…]

Cyril Pennington-Richards

Cyril Pennington-Richards (cameraman and director) 17/12/1911 - 2/1/2005by admin â€” last modified Aug 12, 2008 12:43 PMBECTU History Project - Interview No. 122[Copyright BECTU] Transcription Date: 2003-08-13Interview Date: 1990-01-09Interviewer: Alan Lawson and Colin Moffat Inter[…]

Peter Tanner

[…]ty girl, sitting on the sofa with a long cigarette holder which they had in those days. This must have been the very end of 1933 or the beginning of 34 and my uncle said I don't think we can disturb him at the moment so we went away. He was still talking to this girl and finally my uncle said I thin[…]

Lusia Krakowska (Mrs Arendt)

[…]they were worried about the giggly girlish things and they had come out of.....RF: Playing Hockey?LK: Yes and when you heard the guns from across the channel, there was Dunkirk and so on and so forth, they were not very impressed and we were terrified, my sister and I, because we thought, you know, […]

Sarah Erulkar (de Normanville)

 Sarah Erulkar   471Sides 1 and 2  SPEAKERSInterviwee Sarah Erulkar, Interviewer Rodney Giesler Rodney Giesler  00:00This is an interview with Sarah Erulkar, recorded by Rodney Giesler on the ninth of March 2000, for the BECTU oral history archive, in who[…]
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