Norman Spencer

[…]efore I stood up there and had a look. And I believe much later on in 1944, when or 45 when great expectations, the black and white film, directed by David Lean was made the cameraman who was going to be taken on but wasn't in the end called Robert Cresco. A well known British camera man who I think[…]

Ronald Neame

[…]ler  1:16:27  Yes, I think there were people who heard I knew I was one when I was 11. I wanted to be the greatest director since David what Ronald Neame  1:16:34  you did? Oh, absolutely. Yeah, so Roy Fowler  1:16:36  that's inte[…]

David Robson

David Robson (projectionist, television engineer) 1921 - ? by admin — last modified Jul 27, 2008 02:41 PM Description […]

David Robson

BECTU History Project - Interview No. 431[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: TBCInterview Date: 1998-03-25Interviewer: Alan LawsonInterviewee: David Robson[Tape 1, Side 1]The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. David Robson, one time cinema projectionist, television […]

Paul Fox

[…] was the discipline of writing to film, two words a foot, and I learnt it in a very hard school, taught by two Fleet Street newspaper men, one called David [s.l. Cole 0:04:42], the other one called Clement Cave, and this was Howard Thomas’ Pathé, of course.  Howard was the Editor in Chief, alth[…]

Anne V Coates

[…]idn’t even want to type or anything like that. And, there seemed to be only continuity girls and editors. And of course, very early on my hero became David Lean, because at that time he was doing Great Expectations. I’d been, I’d been to Denham a couple of visits, I’d got taken round the studios, an[…]

Oswald (Ossie) Morris

[…]eymour was on the front door I was terrified of. And there were these the sort of things work I mean and there was in the art department director was David Rawnsley. I David Rawnsley had a most terrible time he built the most wonderful sets for this picture and he got nothing but stick from Pau[…]

James Arthur Clark

[…]KER: M20Why why was John not coming because he was so stability. Yes. Yes.SPEAKER: M24He said no way was he going to get involved. And finally it was David Walpole who was the producer. And finally David said he would do it. John said he would do it provided he could make mention in his segment abou[…]

Charles Picken

[…]the Edinburgh, and Glasgow, projectionists you know you had graduated from the real hard core school of professionalism. One of those projectionists, David Bain, would become a staunch personal friend and will make several unanticipated “Guest Appearances” during this saga. .CHAPTER TWO -  […]

Clyde Jeavons

BEHP 0694T Clyde Jeavons TranscriptClyde Jeavons [CJ] Murray Weston [MW] David Sharp [DS]Please note that there is some repetition between the first and second Interviews. DSMW: Well although we didn’t call our first interview the first one, with David Francis, this is our second interview with[…]
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