Pamela Mann-Francis (nee Mann)

[…] work. I went to Pitman's Training College, and from there, went into... my first job was with an advertising agency. Strange, had nothing to do with commercials in those days. So commercials were almost not thought of at all. I think there was a small division at Dorland Advertising thinking about […]

Freddie Francis

[…] MaximaFreddie Francis: Sounds like a food processorAlan Lawson: That's right. I wonder if it is. Not a commercialFreddie Francis: No, I did very few commercials.Alan Lawson: Then The Doctor And The DevilsFreddie Francis: That was the last one I directed at Shepperton.Alan Lawson: Anything about tha[…]

John Shirley

BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for[…]

Maurice Askew

[…]ds: Well I'll leave a cassette here and perhaps he'll be good enough to, you know.Maurice Askew: Yeah. He did a lot more in the way of documentaries, commercials, all that sort of thing. In recent years, of course, we've been on features only, but we did the whole range before - and a lot of music. […]

John L Hargreaves

[…]s  9:43  Yeah, I can't see. And he said people are now caught on to this. Whereas you get repeat fees. You get a lot of these commercial TV commercials have. You name it, coffee, whatever and they must be painted, pointed out and done. ThenJim Shields  10:02  repeat fees balance […]

Alice (Queenie) Turner

[…] brother Jack, because Jack Lucas worked at Pathé House.Oh did he?And he, yes he used to work on documentaries.Oh.And then he worked on, and then the commercials started coming in for television. SoJack used to say ‘Queenie, can you get my commercials through quick’? because being in charge there he[…]

Gus Walker

This transcript has been produced automatically using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of […]

John Jeffrey

John Jeffrey (JJ)Laboratories (Technicolor, Colour Film Services, Humphries)BECTU No. 273Interviewers: Alan Lawson (AL) & Syd Wilson (SW)Date: 23/02/19932 Tapes Side 100:00:00 – 00:09:05 Born 27 Sep 1917 Motherwell; schooling; 1926 strike & depression; marriage at Gretna Green and move […]
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