Virginia McKenna

INTERVIEW WITH VIRGINIA McKENNA (ACTRESS)The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project.Interviewer: Joyce RobinsonRecorded on the 9th January 2002. TAPE ONE SIDE ONEJR: Virginia McKenna, when and where were you born?VM: Well, I was born in London on the 7th of June, 193[…]

Esther Harris

[…]er in the States for most of the major companies and it similarly came back to London that way.Y es.And the London studios were working.Did they have editing rooms and things like that?Oh yes, indeed, we had cutting rooms.Y es.Oh absolutely. And camera rooms we used to go out on opticals. Oh yes, we[…]

John Box

[…]th – sound is vital to a designer’s ability to evoke images in an audience; JB discusses shooting the map room sequence; Lean made JB sit through the editing of Doctor Zhivago; JB was more than a designer to David Lean.00:29:50 – 00:42:00 Film in Ireland with Kim Novak [Of Human Bondage] which he st[…]

Lusia Krakowska (Mrs Arendt)

[…]K: Yes, everybody did something, I think I wrote, and sometimes produce, Derek was executive producer and Cenkalski produced and then I took over the editing, I was taught by all of them a little bit, so yes we did absolutely everything, everybody did everythingRF: But how about the production crews[…]

John Turner

[…]d she had ideas and they didn't always gel! Although I usually won because I knew more about films than she did. She was no fool, but when it came to editing, and music, and all that kind of thing.... Anyway, I had an editor who was extremely good as I said. I knew all that kind of thing from my sti[…]
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