Donald Wilson

[…]es, Donald Wilson  40:33nothing could stop him. He was he was an ignorant man. And, uh, he made him made a kind of hit harder, sort of semi documentary of the amount of hunting of elephants and lions and things like that, which made quite a little sensation, as Dave could have showed a man[…]

Muriel Box (Gardiner) (née Baker)

[…] up to me and said, "Excuse me, where is your ticket?" I never knew what he meant, so I said, "What is it?" He explained it to me and said he was the Union and you couldn't work there without a ticket and I said, "I'm sorry I have none." So he said, "You won't be able to work here I'm afraid, you ha[…]

Desmond Dickinson

[…]here were not machines for developing film except at Hepworth – it all had to be done by hand in frames.[Break in recording]00:05:22 – 00:14:17 Trade unions; attempt to establish a film workers union in 1920; the company eventually went broke; DD moved to Stoll Studios as a camera assistant working […]

Peter T Handford

[…] Cameron had offered me a job with the Crown Film Unit which I took and worked out of Pinewood with the Crown Film Unit on various locations, various documentary films for some time until the future of the Crown Film Unit looked very uncertain and they were going to be turned out of Pinewood and may[…]
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