[…]r was a widow by that time so I left school at sixteen.Jim Connock : And did you then have any further training, or did you have any training for the film industry, or did you...?Kitty Wood : No I didn't. I wanted to go into the film industry from the age of twelve, and I went to see Jimmy Ritchie [[…]
[…] we usually start out by saying when and where were you born? Andy Worker: Well I was born in Bedfordshire in 1916. I always wanted to be in the film industry and during the war I got the opportunity - I was a cost accountant, and I got a job at Shepherd's Bush. Much to my surprise I found that[…]
[…]hen it was taken over by a motion picture company - I'm not at all sure whether it was Paramount or something like that. And they used to make silent films round there, and occasionally they would enlist some local people for crowd scenes, everybody would be in it from round about you see, and there[…]
[…]den@btinternet.com. Alan Lawson  0:06  The copyright of this recording is vested in the back to history project. JOHN Shirley, Feature Film Editor, interviewer, Alan Lawson, with sid Wilson, recorded on the 29th of September 1993. side one? Well, first, john, when and where were you b[…]
[…]aylor: You said it was simpler in those days. So you had a good start in life.Bill Cotton Jr: In terms of the industry, yes. My brother went into the film industry, he was a pilot, a mosquito pilot during the war, and he caught TB, and when he was3rdcured of that he went to Shepperton and became a a[…]
[…]back up to this hut, which had a couple of holes cut in it. And they would fix the screen at the other end of the heart. And then they would beam the film for the week, with the projector outside on the back of this truck. And that truck used to go to to other places as well, it didn't just come to […]
[…] ...that they were experimenting with?Sidney Cole: And you didn't know anything about the early days of sound when sound was on record rather than on film.Jack Rockett: No, I knew it was on record but I didn't know the details. No, I wasn't involved in.Sidney Cole: You weren't involved in the techni[…]
