Laura Mulvey

[…] like so many little girls at the time, was The Red Shoes.  That wasn’t when the film was released, but in the early fifties, when I went to the cinema with my mother. Both my parents being keen film fans. So if I go on a little bit more from my film going days,ES: If you would.LM: …living at t[…]

Dennis Main Wilson

[…]DMW: Yes, indeed.  In Berlin - the Berlin dialect is hilarious it- it's funnier than cockney, all the hard consonants go soft like I went to the cinema “Ich bin ins kino gegangen” in Deutsch in Berlin even it's … “Is bin in kino yeyanyen”  and it's all very soft. We had this old cow, Frau […]

Alf Cooper

[…]d you were just ready to go home and, and it was replace scenes start all over again.Well, they were doing two or three newsreels a week then for the cinema weren’t they?6They, yes, used to do two, two come out Wed, Wednesdays was it? Wednesdays and Sundays, Saturdays and Sundays.Yes.But, mm, it’s g[…]

John Turner

[…] on the royal train. Arrangements were made with all the cinema managers across the country wherever the royal train stopped to […]

Joan Kemp

[…] actor in various touring productions before addressing her work in cinema in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She reveals […]

Colin Flight

[…]working with?CF: Yes, the issues really were that the Kodak work I was doing was the formulation or creation of film emulsions and product to sell to cinematographers for printing or whatever they were doing at the time. There were certainly some cinematographers, and the laboratory was the other en[…]

Joan Kemp-Welch

[…]'s rehearsal!Roy Fowler: Mother's ruin!Joan Kemp-Welch: Much to everybody - I'm sure - their amusement! And I also remember, we had a stage manager and he used the word "bloody" - he used to say "foot-bloody-ball", do you know what I mean? He would use it all the time and I thought this wa[…]

Ella Mallet

[…] in.Roy Fowler : Yes.Ella Mallett : And when sound came in, well I really didn't know what to think. Life had ended! So I put an advertisement in The Cinema, the weekly magazine. And I had an answer from Chancery Lane Ballroom [Bowmans/Beaumans?] Theatres. I bet you know [May Line???], don't you - t[…]

Geoff Hermges

[…]ending to be soldiers, soldiers and I then they decided that game was a supposed technical knowledge. They said, Right, we're sending you on to run a cinema in Blackpool, which didn't please me, but on the other hand, I was within striking distance of demobilization. And I thought, well, Blackpool d[…]

Harry Coventry

[…]was at home, and then the BBC really became the back room. The radio became what we it was a major form of entertainment. You didn't really go to the cinema because, you know that it was not necessarily the best thing to get stuck in a cinema in an air raid. Nick Gilbey  21:19 &n[…]
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