[…] Yes, we went to the presentation and it was shown. I: How did you feel sitting in the audience watching your film on the big screen?! R: I don't know! Slightly embarrassed about it. It was always amazing to see it on a big screen. There were also some other films there that were way bette[…]
[…]t Gawn Grainger (GG)Interviewer: Darrol Blake (DB)Transcribed by David Sharp 2024. DB: This is the 8th January 2019, and we are in North London and my name is Darrol Blake. GG: My name is Gawn Grainger, I was born in Glasgow on the 12th September 1937. So, there we go. DB: Right.[…]
[…]ed at the future, and obviously I was going to have to go on from here a lot more studying ,a lot more learning. And probably maybe summer holiday. I don't know, I was not too keen. My other interests at the time,through my family, largely were amateur theatricals. My uncle and aunt ran a musical so[…]
[…]p;Darrol Blake: So, can we begin by saying who you are, where you were born and when?Peter Mullins: Right. My name is Peter Mullins, I was born in London, Holborn, Great Ormond Street Hospital, 15th September 1931.DB: And what sort of family was it? Were they in the business or not?PM: No, I suppose[…]
[…]interview with Harry. Harry, can you tell us where and when you were born? Harry Coventry  0:34  Yeah, I was born in East London, in the East London maternity hospital in Milan in Commercial Road in London in 1936 March 15, it was a fairly strange start, and my parents had j[…]
[…]nd l, being performer in radio and television. The name of the interviewer is Joyce Robinson. The date the 19th of April, 1996 Ron, I think you're Londoner, aren't you? Where and when were you born? Ron Moody  0:33  I was born in the ancient village of Tottenham, North Londo[…]
[…]rs.Carmen Dillon: Yes.Sidney Cole: Yes.Carmen Dillon: And so - he was all right. And then, when the two children were born, then they came back to London and they lived in...Sidney Cole: In Cricklewood.Carmen Dillon: I forget where. But then eventually came back to Cricklewood and Brondesbury, where[…]
[…]rth used in the title sequence; he was involved with Ocean Terminal as a supernumerary during which time he was asked to work as an assistant on a London Transport film about country houses; the cameraman he went to work with at British Transport was Ron Craigen; DW talks about his first time filmin[…]
[…]new tracks and...Jim Shields: Hmm, yes.Maurice Askew: And then when this place was installed, the console was going in about 1946, the first film was done on it in '47, I came over here and carried on. The first film done here was Spring in Park Lane, for Wilcox...Jim Shields: Oh yes, well that was […]
[…]but really I know very little about your early life. When were you born for instance, and where?Charles Cooper: Well I was born June 5th, 1910, in London. My parents actually came over from Russia, from the Ukraine - this would have been about 1893 and they were about twenty-two years of age and the[…]
