INTERVIEW WITH JULIE HARRIS (COSTUME DESIGNER) The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project.Interviewer: Roy LansfordRecorded on the 31st August 2000.RL: Right then Julie, if we could start from the very beginning, from when you were born.JH: I was born in 1921, which […]
[…]nothing that is consistent or complete and the shots were always recognisable it's like Betty, Keppel & Wilson for example the same old same sand dance time after time. I remember Harry Tate Junior still doing his father's act for example.Rodney Giesler:BBC radio had a tremendous, there used to […]
[…][?], he worked on that.Yes I did several films with him at Welwyn.John Legard: Did you?Peggy Gick: Did you never see that film, is it called Congress Dances?John Legard: Yes, I know the title, yes.Peggy Gick: [???] Harvey in. Now that was made in 1930, which was the second year of talkies wasn't it.[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 389[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-002-10Interview Date: 1996-11-06Interviewer: Alan LawsonInterviewee: Cyril PageTape 1, Side 1Alan Lawson: Right um...First and foremost, when and where were you born?Cyril Page: West Ham.Alan Lawson: West Ham. When?Cy[…]
[…]fter one of our lunches, Paul Fox and I in this restaurant; one of my problems at that time was, Ken Russell’s film on Richard Strauss, you remember, Dance of the Seven Veils, had been banned by Aubrey Singer and who ever between me and Paul. And on the way back in the taxi –presumably Paul or[…]
[…]ended up with a piece of picture at the same length of the track. And we went up to the tiny theatre, I've had a look of something with some St Vitus Dance hopping about. all over the screen And that really, I think, was the time when it was decided that Doc probably didn't know as[…]
[…] week that was. It's a spoof of nudist films he said at that time those dreadful nudist films were around where people played a lot of volleyball and danced around their socks on and he said it's great fun and it's been written by I forget who but good people. He said Why did you come down to Woburn[…]
[…]principal artists in one half and remote band.Gerald Chambers 10:15 One the principal electronic pizza I remember was in there was a girl dancer in in seven who was dancing I think on a blue coloured floor against the blue psych and that was superimposed over the picture in that was comi[…]
[…] 1940, of course, inevitably I had to go be called up. And I joined the RPF. And, you know, you go for a selection that they after your medical was a dancehall. And you the interviewing officer interviewed me and he says, oh, it says, suggest the RDF for you. I went to see the RDF officer and becaus[…]
