50 Years of British TV Documentaries

[…] ‘The Monoform’; the almost universal filmic grammar which television and cinema use to impart information and entertainment. After he left […]

Chris Kelly

[…]omposer. Perhaps you could tell us a little bit about your memories of him and what it was like sort of growing up in a, in a family with such strong cinema connection? Indeed,Speaker 2  0:28  well, I knew him for 40 years, so I knew him extremely well. He was an extremely gentle man. That[…]

Stanley Watkins

[…]t the time, you could sit and singer, perfectly. Welcome to that. But you can probably get it? I don't know where they have collection. I suppose the cinematograph society has patents. Tim Aymes  33:48  Office has a complete library of technical literature. Stanley Watk[…]

Harry Manley

[…]lerk; at 21 he went back to the Air Ministry for eight months before looking for a new career; as a youngster he would not be allowed to go to Rialto Cinema in New Ferry; as a teen he visited the Ritz cinema in Birkenhead; he had no thoughts of a career in cinema; still great queues outside the cine[…]

Alexander Faris

[…]al from the start and then onto CD, Nimbus.Talking about Catelbi and his orchestration, he was a very practical man and he wrote music for the silent cinema, music to go with Silent films and of course you never knew Whether there was just going to be a piano or a trio or 12 players or sometimes his[…]

Alice (Queenie) Turner

[…]n I worked at Pathé.For which programme?For the, well for the railway. We used to have the King’s Cross for the, we used to...Yes, the LNER, the LNER cinema train.Yes ours, we used to do that.Cinema carriage.9Oh I see, yes.Yes.I see what you mean.Yes, yes, yes.Y es.Seventeen point five?Yes, on seven[…]

Charlotte Jennings

[…] not from her, excuse me, her somewhat indoor indulged upbringing.Alan Lawson  6:41  Was your mother rhetoric were she interested in in the cinema as well. And the same way as your produce? she sort of was interested in the work that he was there,Charlotte Jennings  6:49  she was[…]
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