Hugh Stewart

[…] course once they were able to, then the satellites were able to, so that Hungary and these other people - Poland. And when some of the visiting film critics went to Budapest on some film festival, all they could talk about was Norman Wisdom! [Chuckling] So these people were bloody annoyed about tha[…]

Marion Grierson (Taylor)

[…]ritain (1937) produced and directed Marion, Around the Village Green produced and directed Evelyn Spice and Marion Grierson. I am now going to read a criticism of one of Marion’s films, it’s a review in Sight and Sound signed by J.R.F.T, I don’t know who that is, it gives us an idea of the calibre a[…]

John Aldred

[…]boration with Dolby has been very fruitful and would you say that processing a Dolby track has been very useful. And is processing a Dolby track more critical than processing a mono track would you say?John Aldred: There's quite a long answer to that.SIDE 4, TAPE 2John Aldred: Talking about Dolby's […]

Barbara (Bimbi) Harris

[…]f the 1950sJH: Arthur Askey had a very long running series.JH: Yes, the translation of the old bandwagon show, the radio show. I remembered reading a critic once saying Arthur was the first star really who actually fitted the medium.BH: He was. Was it he who brought Sabrina in? Sabrina was the well-[…]

Margaret Thomson

[…] can see through the follies or extravagances of a director, can't he? But I found among people I worked for after that, hardly anyone who was really critical of the script or of the finished job, they let it go, you know, 'All right, OK'.Gloria Sachs  13:57  A bit discouraging. Marga[…]

Henry Seward

[…]le bit of steam or a little bit of ice. It was all temperature controlled, everything, right?Roy Fowler  38:44  But it was, I think, fairly critical. Oh,Speaker 1  38:46  yes, it was in those days they needed, but now I think it's, it's fast printed and,Roy Fowler  38:55 &nb[…]

Harold Myers

[…]e? Silver man, silver man, and very remarkable chapters launched that. Well,Speaker 2  25:53  what happened was he was working as a variety critic for the one of the New York papers, I think it was the telegraph, and I wouldn't swear today, and he gave a hostile review to somebody, and bec[…]

Douglas Slocombe

[…]was slight problems there, but, but also, also, I think I was very conscious of fact, also with him, that people were always inclined to wait for the criticisms to drop, you know, and I think he, I think he rather felt that he wasn't being treated quite sort of casually enough. I think he felt that,[…]

Len Runkel

[…] and Bessie Bond (labs organiser). Role of the professional trade unionist. Craik had worked in the Labs then become a union official. Local autonomy criticised. Criticism of Sharpe (on branch committee) and strike of neg developers at Technicolor. Bad time to strike. Alf Cooper opposed the calling […]

Gordon McCallum

[…]Were there any directors or producers that, if you like, it wasn't a particularly happy association?Gordon McCallum : Yes, yes. I wouldn't like to be critical of anybody else really and I hate to name names, but there were some directors who were - a few who were less easy to work with. It's not jus[…]
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