Muriel Box (Gardiner) (née Baker)

[…]he look like?Muriel Box : Very famous. He went to Hollywood and made his name, he was very famous.Sidney Cole : Now this would have been about 1933, 34?Muriel Box : No '41 or 2.Alan ? : Yes, 'On Approval'?Muriel Box : Yes, that's right.Sidney Cole : That would be Clive Brook.Muriel Box : Yes, that's[…]

billywilliamsbectutape1

[…] Williams: We also went and did a film in the Channel Islands on 16mm, I forget what that film was […]

Jenny Barraclough

[…]ny which I think expanded and gottaken over; Got bigger and bigger. You were working not just with the BBC you knowgetting commissions from different Channels. How was that?JBWell that was very interesting and the first commission took a long time to get. I mean it'squite a dicey thing; you leave a […]

David Robson

[…] couple of years' time and you should get ready for channel 9." And I thought to myself, "Fat lot of […]

Penny Woolcock

[…] were bands and a magazine and some plays. And then these girls said, 'well, we're fed up with doing plays'. And I said, 'well, let's make a film for Channel 4'. And I knew nothing about making films, I didn't know you were supposed to get a commission (laughter). I just thought, Channel 4 had start[…]

David Robson

[…]: And so we had new... BT-H redesigned the equipment, lovely quality stuff it was. We had to have separate amplifiers and everything for all the four channels, plus the optical tracks of an ordinary programme. And we had to adapt the projectors so that underneath the top spool was the sound pull-thr[…]

Jill Craigie

[…]yright BECTU]  Transcription Date: 1998-12Interview Date: First 3 sides recorded in 1993 by Toby Haggith from the Imperial War Museum. Side 4 was recorded on the 27 th July 1995 by Rodney Geisler from the BECTU History Project    Interviewee: Jill Craigie  Tap[…]

Elizabeth Furse (née Wolpert)

[…]you care then to sketch how you ended up in SW1 in London, in...?Well I married an Englishman, in Nineteen..., 1930, I married that English man in 1934 – ‘33.Was this to escape Germany?No, that was because I, I was working politically as a young Communist in Paris against Hitler. I was going into Ge[…]

Larry Allen

[…] made was sixty tiny little pictures on a small 3, 4 or 5 inch plate, and I did that purposely […]
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