Patrick (Paddy) Carey

[…] years were you there?Paddy Carey  9:56  I think I was there for four years. And it gave me an interest in art which I, I had had before. Remember, when I was nine, a travelling salesman sold my mother. The Children's encyclopaedia, andI, my, my twin models are interesting, but I spent hou[…]

Brian Shemmings

[…]I did. My father my stepfather so my stepfather was an electrician I was a member of the team you in fact I think Frank Chapel was a charge and it&nbs[…]

Peter Williams

[…] the filming point of view probably, although I’ve won a number of awards in Milan and New York and the American festivals, the one that I probably remember most is being Runner-up for the Prix Italia in – think – 1978, that long ago, with a programme called ‘Test Tube Explosion’. At that time I’d b[…]

Michael Clarke

[…]e socialist club. And later, as most people did, who were serious about this, it was that time with the student communist project. This was, if you remember, in 1938, and nine, full of Albania, the fall of episodio, being a little earlier, the invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the threat of a world wa[…]

David Prosser

[…]nd, um, was generally hawked around the Newsreel business as second man.Alan Lawson: Who was, if you like, your first mentor as a cameraman? Do you remember?David Prosser: Not offhand, because I went out with the whole lot, and I've got the list here of the crews. Normally I went out with what was t[…]

Edward Aneurin Williams

[…] origin.That I've been to an ad in Williams's, it's been two of Nigerians in Parliament, and no one is great in Ireland getting good health during my lifetime. And the other was my grandfather was an IBM should have been a liberal MP for the Constitution of Durham until about 96, was the first perso[…]

Alf Cooper

[…]re only six when it finished for goodness sake weren’t you?I, I, I know. I tell you I wasn’t a war baby but the aftermath of the war is what I remember.Yes.Probably made me become a very left wing socialist because I still think the Poppy Day is the biggest disgrace to this nation, there should[…]

Anne Fleming

[…] that job to be perfectly honest, but it certainly interested me.MW: Very good. We'll explore your time in the BFI in a moment. But before we do that FIAF [International Federation of Film Archives] is an organisation which was established in the 1950s I think maybe.AF: No no no no no:  1930s.M[…]

Anne Hanford

[…]rocess.  And you might argue that once the material is in the digital form it is easier.  Well it’s easier but it’s still expensive and the lifetime of any particular format and production process gets shorter and shorter and shorter and I think that’s the great enemy of  libraries an[…]

Ronald Neame

[…]for, Ronald Neame  2:51:56  I suppose about 12 weeks, maybe 14 as little as it was, it might have been longer. i It seemed a lifetime. But finally we finished. And the last thing was Shawn coming to the studio where he did a prologue for us. And he signed his name. And I'm a[…]
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