Barrie Merritt

[…], Bachelor and possibly Larkins before she came to permanently in studios. And so I worked with her at the studios at the time, and I went there. The directors were George Marino, and Fred Thompson. But this was just after a bust up without Digby Turpin and some of his animation people hang around w[…]

Evangeline Harrison

[…] the end of film party, Jocelyn Rickards was there and I’d heard about Jocelyn and I thought she sounded wonderful, and I had for a bit worked as Art Director on Morgan as my husband’s father died in America and he went off for a month. Nobody seemed to even notice me so I just carried on! I’d spott[…]

Vivienne Collins

[…]?Mm. [Pause] I keep getting confused because I later on cut a children’s film and I can’t remember what this one... Unbong Chappie [ph 40:12] was the director by theway.[40:14]AL: Oh well we can phone him up.I think it was a, it was about, there was some skiing in it but I cannot remember the name o[…]

Derek Threadgall

[…]ll all right Peter what about science fiction. So this guy actually took me under his wing and he taught me a heck of a lot. He was cameraman. He was director. He was everything but he took me and a few others under his wing and we started making his other science fiction film. And unfortunately he […]

Peter T Handford

[…]everything is out of sync. The boom operator wears headphones, he should know if it is out of sync. I thought, Good Lord if this man is the technical director we are really in trouble.On the next day we went to the studio. We were met by Gregory Ratoff and introduced to everyone. He said, these two […]

Ray Harryhausen

[…]ional in Hollywood who used to come and lecture at the museum.SPEAKER: M11And uh uh. At school as well. And uh all these people they would get an art director. Some of the various art directors of that time to come and give lectures at night school and USC and uh.SPEAKER: M5But it was an early cours[…]

John Shirley

[…]14  a lot. Yes.John Shirley  5:16  And I went with him one night on a film called, oh, HMS, which I think was either 35 or 36. And the director was Raul Waltz, whom I was introduced to, little did I know that 22 years, 23 years later, I'll be cutting a picture for him. Neither did he,[…]

Lindsay Anderson

The copyright of this interview is vested in the BECTU History Project. LindsayAnderson, film director, theatre producer, interviewer Norman Swallow, recorded on 18 April, 1991SIDE 1Norman Swallow: First of all, when and where were you born?Lindsay Anderson: I was born on April 17th, 1923 in Bangalo[…]

David Prosser

[…]anybody. Er, but, again, through my father and some solicitor, we managed to get a contact to Sir Gordon Craig, I think it was then, who was Managing Director or General Manager of Movietone, and a director in Fox -20th Century Fox - films, and eventually I think we got to see Tommy Scales, who gave[…]
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