David Watkin (DW)Director of PhotographyBECTU No. 320Interviewer: Alan Lawson (AL) and John Legard (JL)Date 03/03/19943 Tapes Side 100:00:00 – 00:12:00 Introductions; born in Margate, 1925; father was a solicitor for Southern Rail; lived in Margate until the war; as a child DW would got to the […]
[…]ertainment History ProjectCornel Lucas – Transcribed by Linda Marchant28/09/2005Copyright interview – BECTU history project - Interview number 543.Recording 15.05 (AP – anonymous person audience)Interviewer: Cornel we’re here at BECTU headquarters . Thanks for coming to BECTU for this intervie[…]
[…]of producers, particularly in television, are concerned about budgets. In the incredible freelance jobs that we do the one and a quarter million that Channel 4 put up for Four Weddings and a Funeral, which was an horrendous budget, like seventeen million I think, originally. Got its money back, of c[…]
[…]came. What else did I do? Opened the canteen for the soldiers, because they'dnowhere to go on the dark nights. And then came back to London in about ’40, end of ’40 I would say, beginning of ’41. Went back to my doctor, who promptly then gotcalled up, and they made him, I don't know whether it was a[…]
[…] Cecil more often.But Kenneth Adam was I think good. He was a good head of channel.He was very good, they were good days in every area and certainly at Ealing. You would know better than I .[…]
[…]aul Frith (PF) & Carolyn Rickards (CR) [EH’s husband, John Ralph [JR], also sits in on the interview] Date: 09/07/2018 Total Length: 01:41:49 CR: Thank you very much firstly for inviting us to your home today to do this interview. We’re gonna’ start with a couple of initial questi[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 25[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2003-01-24Interview Date: 1987-10-28Interviewers: Stephen PeetInterviewee: Philip LeacockTape 1, Side 1Stephen Peet: Ah, here we are, 28th October 1987. Name of interviewee, Philip Leacock, interviewed by Stephen Peet. The […]
[…]t want to form a company at all but it was essential for the Ministry of Information for invoicing and paying us money for our work. That is why in 1940 we formed Halas and Batchelor, for the sole purpose of making propaganda films. And once you do that, as you know, they work you day and night to c[…]
