Peggy Gick

[…]y mad!Is it the food flashes you're talking about?John Legard: Oh the [food flashes]? Those are those little half minute um...which were shown in the cinemas.Peggy Gick: No I don't [remember] those, no.John Legard: Oh and also there were a lot of...apart from the food flashes there were a lot of wha[…]

Leonard (Len) Harris

[…]lms all the time, possibly it was a bit of an escapist thing at first, I expect, because of getting away from school you know. And there was a little cinema down the road, you might have noticed it as you came up, down in Salisbury Road there, a small cinema. It's closed now of course, it's been clo[…]

Fred Tomlin

[…]so had Conrad Veidt in it. Now this had an American director, a funny little man called Lothar Mendes, and he had made - I knew because I was a great cinema fan as well, apart from anything else - he had made a film called, with Charles Laughton, on one of Forester's books... Payment Deferred. He di[…]

Leonard Harris

[…] away from school you know. And there was a little cinema down the road, you might have noticed it as […]

Fred Tomlin

[…] had made - I knew because I was a great cinema fan as well, apart from anything else - he […]

Michael Houldey

[…] France,Unknown Speaker  2:35  at least not France, Paris was lively. There was new music, there was new art. And there was essentially new cinema. That's to say, the new wave. And that had a huge impact on me. And I decided there and then this is what I want to do. I want to make films. B[…]

Roy Fowler

[…]ma and he worked on the screenplays. There was a woman called Marjorie Dean who was kind of script editor and she would put it into some kind of cinematographic language and in those days the scripts were broken down into shots, shot by shot in extreme close up, close up, medium shot, medium tw[…]

John Krish

[…] created a symphony orchestra of unemployed musicians - unemployed because of the coming of sound, strangely enough, people who played in the pits in cinema - and that was called 'The New Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra'. And I was one of four, the youngest of four. There was a big gap between me an[…]
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