Renee Glynne

[…]ll part of it?RENÉE GLYNNE: Yes, but the promise that he made he didn’t keep becauseTom White, who was the umbrella of independent producers, who had David Lean, Michael Powell and Gaby, and Launder and Gilliat (TIME 16.02) ... all puppeteering, I mean, that’s unkind but it’s a joke word .[…]

Simon Rose

[…]d you knew if a certain director or certain editor was booked in that day, you could expect something special. And a few editors, I noticed di Vaughn David needs on a few others names his TED, Ted Roberts, Ted Roberts was, you know, you just knew whatever it was, he'd make a good fit. Well, if it wa[…]

Jim Whittell

[…]p;            Q:  If anyone has a severe reputation in this business it would be Sir John David.  I feel he was misunderstood unfairly.  Discuss. 00:52:42        JIM WHITTELL:  His reputa[…]

Paul de Burgh

[…]:30:00 – 00:41:20 PB set up at Denham; Black Pirate restoration – test using an optical printer purchased as a result of support from the government; David Francis asked PB to work on Technicolor films (for 18 months before he retired); PB describes the restoration of 3-strip films; Eastmancolor neg[…]

John Cotter

[…]e day that I had to go to Algiers and then Malta and I had beentransferred from my unit to the AFPU, this was all done by a chap called Putnam who is DavidPutnam's father who was a well known Fleet Street photographer in those days and became aMajor. He was based in the War Office. So I went to Malt[…]

Joe Busuttil

[…]n about the seventies - 70-71 - I was earning a lot of dough (I don’t tell this to the tax people by the way) and Wendy was expecting the third one - David - and that was a bit touch and go.  But anyway David came along so my little house in Carshalton which was about the size of this room, I m[…]

David Watkin

David Watkin (DW)Director of PhotographyBECTU No. 320Interviewer: Alan Lawson (AL) and John Legard (JL)Date 03/03/19943 Tapes Side 100:00:00 – 00:12:00 Introductions; born in Margate, 1925; father was a solicitor for Southern Rail; lived in Margate until the war; as a child DW would got to the […]

Carmen Dillon

[…]do remember. Oh he's probably a very nice chap. But I don't know, I came up against him a few times [SC laughs].Sidney Cole: You didn't ever work for David Lean did you?Carmen Dillon: [emphatic] No!Sidney Cole: Ah, why do you say no in that tone?Carmen Dillon: Because I'm very glad I didn't, because[…]

Alice (Queenie) Turner

[…]ll the, I’ve actually, I made some good friends with the researchers here.Do, are Paul and Jane members or are they...?Paul is.Paul is is he?And, and David Downing I, you know, got him in.What Anne’s...?Yes, David Downing and of course, Bob Bruce and, oh, there’s quite a few of them, and I say […]
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