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[…]well as you know, they still dainty ladies. And it was dirty job. Yes. No, I knew I never felt any empty. I must say that once or twice. I heard of a director who wouldn't have a woman in the cutting room in this in the system. Really? I heard this about several. You know, I could understand it. Act[…]

[…]ver get it dirty. And of course, Disney expected next day that shot, that was the shot, you didn’t mess about, that was the shot. Ken Annakin was the director, Perce Pearce was that, and Carmen was production designer. So, we did that and at the same time the studios were just finishing No […]

[…]ithin certain degrees of control. And an Arts programme wants to throw these things out the window but you had to have an awful lot of trust that the Director would say to you, "I want to do it this way" and then when he then takes the footage into the Edit suite and the Editor says, "I can't cut th[…]

Christine WhittakerHistory Project 1As a rare insight into the wonderfully diverse career Christine Whittaker carved out for herself in the world of archive – and beyond – we re-visit an interview she gave to the History Project eight years ago in Puglia, Italy. Her ‘inquisitors’ were Sue Malden and[…]

[…] think. GHW stood for Gregory, Hake and Walker, the three director founders. It was a Methodist organised thing - I […]

[…] for German cinema, eminence grise; Mycroft was ef fectively artistic director of the place, brought in remarkable range of people, […]

[…]as based in London. So, of course, he brought the family down and he stayed with them for a while, then he went to British Lion as assistant managing director to the late Sidney Myers, another character in the business, and then in his latter years of his career he formed Forward Films. This was a c[…]

[…]:34  No, it would have been silent. But I can also remember, long after that, when I was growing up, and very aware of films and actors and directors and the world of cinema, that's what my father did ,was the constant stream of visitors to the house. My parents were extremely hospitable. […]