Jonathan Balcon

[…]'s wife and various other people helped to get going initially. And of course, it has now expanded into a very substantial performance not unlike the Edinburgh Festival. Although it doesn't take part I think over quite so long a period. He was profoundly interested in all things to do with Sussex wh[…]

Charles W. Smith

[…]shots on Derby Day, scenes of the decorated London streets, a trip in the royal barge to the Tower of London, a ceremony of presentation of colors at Edinburgh Castle, and things like that. I was cameraman on the film, or principal cameraman, as well as stereoscopic supervisor. The film wasn't […]

Michael Darlow transcript

[…] called ‘All These People’, recommended it to be shown at Edinburgh Film Festival. There the late won derful John Grierson […]

Virginia McKenna

[…]s, I was very busy. Actually, in all the fifties I was hugely busy. I did another play called The River Line by Charles Morgan,[29] which went to the Edinburgh Festival and then came to Lyric Hammersmith and then went to the West End with Paul Scofield and Pamela Brown again.[30] So I worked twice w[…]

Rodney Giesler

[…]d on it. I rehearsed my actors very well first. I then went up to the BFI Summer Film School in the summer of 54 in Glasgow and we finished up in the Edinburgh Festival. I met there John Huntley and Stanley Reed and I mentioned what I was doing, and they said when you've got it together show it to u[…]

Sydney Samuelson

[…] job was to help to get the Area Film Commission set up in the UK. When I came on the scene I think there were three kind of film offices, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Newcastle I think were the three. And I think there are now thirty-three. (u Hum) And they of course all have to fund themselves, they’v[…]
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