[…]ods. The Carmichaels are certainly Ian's family, and the Greenwoods are also tied up in some way with the Greenwoods that one comes up against in the film industry. We wrote on slates, and we learnt to read and all the rest - we learnt a little bit of French, and when I was seven my father was trans[…]
[…]at you’d made this choice by now?VM: I was, yes. I felt ready in myself to start earning my living and getting on with life, yes.JR: So, there was no filming at this stage – this was all theatre?VM: Yes. It was 1950, I was in London at the Haymarket Theatre. In those days, there was a wonderful thea[…]
[…]ly you are right. But can I just say that to start as it were in the middle, as I think you know, he was knighted in 1947 for services to the British film industry during the war. He was also a Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olaf, Norway, which he and Charlie Frend acquired I think because o[…]
Alan Lawson 0:00 the copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Pieter de Normanville, documentary film director, interviewer, is John Taylor, recorded on the 28th of February 1991. With interjections from his wife, Sarah Erulkar side one.John Taylor 1:11 &n[…]
[…] quite a few children's films... John Legard: This is The Children's Film Foundation? Peggy Gick: Hmm. John Legard: And they were shot […]
[…] Jul 28, 2008 05:40 PM BIOGRAPHY: Pat Jackson entered the film industry in 1933 as an assistant at the GPO […]
[…] Jul 28, 2008 05:40 PM BIOGRAPHY: Pat Jackson entered the film industry in 1933 as an assistant at the GPO […]
[…]sed to act more-or-less as sort of employment help for us. I said, 'what's going?' And he said, "well the architectural world's a bit quiet but three film companies have rung up." So I thought, well let's give it a go.John Legard: So really the films started at a very early age then? While you were […]
[…]go Derek starting at the beginning when and where were you born.SPEAKER: M8I was born in Harwich Essex on 18th November 1938 and went to see my first film. Locals in the mob. At the age of approximately five years old. That film was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.SPEAKER: F1It attracted me even at […]
[…]odness me! Yes!Pat Jackson: So that didn't help. So I was now sixteen, and I got, through a dear old friend of mine, Henry Blyth - who was one of the film critics on the Times, later on - brilliant chap! [NB: could be Henry Blyth, screenwriter, b 1911, who was co-writer of Jackson's Seven Keys in 19[…]
