Joy Batchelor

[…] Watford, Joy Batchelor worked as a freelance graphic artist and designer on various newspapers and magazines before meeting John Halas […]

Peter Stuart Mullins

[…]Yeah.DB: Or Borehamwood as we know it.PM: Yeah, again because of the making props and stuff like that I got a job with Alfred Junge, who was a famous designer: he worked on [The Cabinet of] Dr Caligari, I believe. Anyway, he was a nice rather humourless German gentleman, with a Homburg hat and a big[…]

Joy Batchelor

[…]tion's good enough you don't need to bother about the design. The trend that happened after 1960 - leaping forward - when we had ASIFA, all that, the designers really took over. Not animators, who were also sometimes film-makers. Like John Hubley. But you had designers, primarily designers, who also[…]

Joy Cuff (née Seddon)

[…]ses on set design and actually it's Steven Bundy, I just remember his name, he worked for the BBC. Do you remember him? No..? [laughing] He was a set designer and so I did a year of that so the I had that behind me so I started going... I applied to the BBC and I remember the letter, which I don't h[…]

Margaret Dale

[…]ision production of 1984 and he was Big Brother. The real Roy Oxley was quite different from Big Brother as seen on the screen. You were talking to a designer you had seen on the screen acting a part.I do remember Mr Robert Silvie, audience research. That was completely new to me. I had never come i[…]

Nancy Thomas

[…]osophy of design, which was it wasn’t one of these really new sort of things that everybody, you know, they made this great mystery out of it and the designers who are a great elite, who had these wonderful theories. And they believed that everybody had a design capacity and designed automatically, […]

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[…] said "Have you ever thought of becoming a motion picture designer?" And I said "no, I hadn't, it sounds like […]

L P (Bill) Williams

[…] that and the other - whatever architectural students thought they'd like to do then. And he said "Have you ever thought of becoming a motion picture designer?" And I said "no, I hadn't, it sounds like a good idea". He said, "Well have you seen 'Robin Hood'?" which was then at...er...Drury Lane I th[…]
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