Jill Langley

[…]Jack HawkinsUnknown Speaker  16:55  young, most people don't know these names, but you would know them Vittorio De Sica, who was actually a director, who wore and I must say, I wasn't be mean.Unknown Speaker  17:04  Vittorio De Sica, Richard Conte and Dan Daly. Dan Daly was a mus[…]

Mary Orrom

[…]by Katy McGahan, one of the curators in the Non-Fiction unit at the BFI interviewing for the BECTU History Project, Mary Orrom, filmmaker, editor and director. And it's 25th of January 2011.  Katy McGahan  0:30  OK  Mary Orrom, many thanks for agreeing to do t[…]

Peter Proud

[…];had installed somebody whom he thought was a jollygood ......... as Supervising Art Director, Clarence Elder, so I wentto see Elder and recovered my Glasgow accent at once and sai[…]

Freddie Young

[…]and projected the rushes at the end of the day; FY started working for Gaumont in 1917 and left ten years later, by which time he earned £5 a week; a director invited FY to shoot his next film; FY gave his notice to Colonel Bromhead the head of the studio at Gaumont.00:10:00 – 00:17:05 His first fil[…]

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[…]

Cornel Lucas

[…] about two or three mins  to get your light / shot-CL? A shout and it frustrated me so much that when I shouted I used to sometimes shout at the director and he would say break and the gaffer would say all lights off or cut. And you were Cinderella that’s why I couldn’t stand it and I couldn’t […]

Gerry Humphreys

[…] 1Alan Lawson.The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project.  Gerry Humphries, sound recordist, dubbing mixer, managing director of Twickenham Film Studios.  Interviewer Alan Lawson.  Recorded on the 21st August 1995.  Side one.Now, first Gerry when and w[…]

Sheelagh Rees

[…] from the original cassette recording.Tape 1 Side A.The copyright of this recording is vested in The BECTU History Project. Sheelagh Rees, television director and producer. Interviewer Norman Swallow. Recorded on the thirtieth of June 1992, Side One.Right, first Sheelagh when and where were you born[…]
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