[…]s, Agnes Willkie said to me that Wheel Nuts was a car programme but she said, "I've got you down to go to China", which would have been the trip of a lifetime and I thought, well, kind of a trip of a lifetime or a TV series that I really want to run? So, I chose, with Agnes's permission, not to go t[…]
[…]u think of the changes which have taken place in the medical field, I was terribly interested because I've always been interested, as I say from this lifetime of illness of things medical. Just a small sidelight on on that. was the fact that I found that as a television person dealing with top line […]
[…]eventy thousand pounds worth of value on the screen...and, um, they said, "Well I think we must get some advice on this." And it so happened that the Honorary Film Advisor to the Ministry of Information of Films Division at that time was Sir Alexander Korda.John Legard: Oh was he? Yes... I didn't...[…]
[…]me later? Norman Swallow: No, I had an interest in films as far back as I can remember.When I was at school and when I was at Eccles I used to go to the&nb[…]
[Side 1] [OI] The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Daphne Ancell, honorary member of ACTT, ACTT activist, one time Chairman of the Technicolor Shop. Interviewer Alf Cooper. Recorded on the eleventh of April 1989 at her home in Shepperton. Side 0ne.[OI] Daphne when a[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]girl of about seven they used to escort me when I first started. And. My brother who's two years younger than me. He started when I was seven and I remember being terrified having to look after my brother who couldn't have cared less. The age of five I mean if you if he didn't go to West Harrow went[…]
[…]s, I believe, very good.Fowler/Lawson: Now then, let's go onto editors, you know, who've come and...Bill Girdlestone: Well, you know I'm an honorary member. They made me an honorary member, I'm the only one apart from Bill Whatsisname, the American. They gave me that because I gave them so[…]
[…] days and probably one of the reasons why they broke down the rigid shift system to make things more flexible and more efficient really.CR: Can you remember any particular challenges or issues that came up in your time working there?TE: That’s a good one. There are the general sort of crises of day-[…]
[…] looking at directors and how they tend to be directors. And one struck one interest in me. And that was brand Forbes, who at that time was a leading member of leader, I should say, of a young British film Mater's. And he'd been an actor for a long, long time. So I thought maybe that's what I need t[…]
