Wendy Toye

[…] film ever to have any colour in it.LW: Richard Tauber. Yes, it's got a sequence in colour at the end and at the beginningWT: Do you remember you the director was.LW: I can't remember [Karl Grune] 4 WT: It was somebody like Ludwig Berger, not that there are many somebody's like that, but you kn[…]

James (Jimmy) Gilbert

[…] interview is with James Gilbert interviewed by John Taylor with possible interruptions by Stephen Peet. James Gilbert has mainly been a producer and director for television and the date is 5 March 1990, File No 130.SIDE 1, TAPE 1John Taylor: Just start at the beginning. When were you born and where[…]

Winston (Wyn) Ryder

[…]ave?WR: Prep school in High Wycombe and then the grammar school, and I wasn’t the best student, and my parents were friendly with Edgar Wallace’s Art Director, the only lady art director at the time. She was very talented, when she wasn’t working for Edgar Wallace, mainly in the theatre,LH: Edgar Wa[…]

billywilliamsbectu-tape3

[…] should add he wasn't getting on very well with the director. At the rehearsal stage I think things had not […]

Gerald Chambers

[…]h a colour unit, which others had experienced. That was basically an American unit brought over from Pennsylvania. Yes, a producer for which, and the director of which were American and the two engineer,Gerald Chambers  31:19  yes, the engineer, the producer was called Paul Schmidt. And th[…]

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[…] Throughout the 1930s he worked as Production Assistant, and Assistant Director at a variety of studios, including Gaumont British, MGM […]

Cedric Dawe

THE ACTT HISTORY PROJECT – CEDRIC DAWE, ART DIRECTOR.INTERVIEWER: ROY FOWLER.The copyright of the following recording is vested with the BECTU History project. It is the 19th of November 1991. We are in Chartridge in Buckinghamshire at the home of Cedric Dawe, an Art Director whose career in the ind[…]

E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]pictures.E.M. Smedley-Aston: No, no, that's quite true. Well I...the first studio I ever went into was Beaconsfield where there was a female Art Director, I think her name was Mary Brabham or something like that. Anyhow, she was a friend of the family and she said...well I think the studio ther[…]
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