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Tessa Idlewine (TI) Film Preservationist (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science) Interviewers: Paul Frith (PF) & Keith Johnston (KJ) Date 08/02/2019 Conduct via SkypeLength 00:35:23 PF: OK Tessa so if you could tell me a little bit about your role at the Academy.TI:[…]
[…]s is the voice of Paul Frith on the 8th June 2018. So, if we can start by talking a little bit about where your interest in film and photography developed and some of your background in cinematography.PS: Yes, well I was brought up with … from the beginning with photography all around me, black[…]
[…] collections here including restoration projects. I often say it’s everything we, everything the BFI chooses to do. It’s even sort of, more precisely defined, everything the archive decides to do with the films once they’re out of the vault. So I’m not, I’m not part of that collections management th[…]
[…] happened that year, the Coronation. So, everybody was in their home and I was sitting on the floor watching this all unfolding in this twelve-inch wide screen and I turned to my mother, apparently, (I don't remember saying it but everyone else says I did!) "I'm going to do that!" And she said, "Oh?[…]
[…] with when and where you were brought up. When were you born and where were you brought up? R: I was born in 1953. I was mainly brought up in Clydebank, not too far away from where we are at the moment. I went to school in a place called Faifley, which is part of Clydebank. That's where my educ[…]
[…]d I thought, 'this must be what a television studio is like!' because on Six-Five Special there was shadows all over the floor so that put me at the idea that this must be what a television studio is like. It was just a big, empty warehouse with big lights up there causing hard shadows. I don't know[…]
[…] near to where the Metropolitan Line station is and where now the extension to Shepherds Bush Market, it was there. It was bombed in the War and they decided never to rebuild it. But that was the cinema it seems where she spent so much of her teenage years. [TIME 00.01.05] So, I was taken to the cin[…]
Tape operator 0:06 Yeah, I think that's good. That's good.Derek Threadgall 0:07 Okay. The copyright of this recording is vested in the British entertainment history project.Okay, good thing. Today is Monday 20th of June 2016. The interviewee is Howard Lanning, president of th[…]
