[…]onard Harris: I don't think I would have got it mind you, because I hated school and I didn't learn much. But that's really it. I wanted to be in the film business you see, I was passionately fond of films all the time, possibly it was a bit of an escapist thing at first, I expect, because of gettin[…]
[…]ter City School which is just off Victoria St.AL: After that did you do any specialised training?SC : I did nothing that prepared me for my career in filmDuring the normal course of education in secondary School I got interested in drama and with a couple of friends founded to.e school dramatic soci[…]
[…]a century. I know you started off in the camera department became a cameraman. And that you ended up as the producer of those specialised films 50 years is quite time, how did it all begin?John Wiles 0:43 Well, I suppose it began really with my, as a kid I had an interest in […]
[…]was Alexander corder that came to call basically and said he was he was Hungarian and the Jewish. I'd like you to write the music for this particular film. I can't remember the name of the film that film but he did a lot of films for Alexander Calder. And during that period of time from 1933 I mean […]
[…]43 Part One[00:00:09]PF: Well first off, thank you Chris for taking part in the interview today. I think we should begin where your interests in film and photography developed and perhaps your first experiences with colour photography. Perhaps as an amateur in your early life.CM: Well I always […]
[…]or I just in the I got the impression I was a little nap processing. It was a release print 916 mail. It rejoiced and then in the name of substantive film finish limited substandard definition. It is now film Magic and much more respectable but it was at the top end of Dean Street under OK. I had an[…]
[…]and strangely enough even though he used to fight against the cinema, you know, he really couldn't stand the cinema, on principle. But he had certain films he loved to go and see again and again with Harry Bower in it for example. He didn't like the films and when I went into the films he was absolu[…]
[…]nbsp;The copyright of this recording is vested in the actt history project.Charlotte Jennings, artist, daughter of Humphrey Jennings, the documentary film director, poet, and artist,recorded on the 17th of December 1990. side one interview, Alan Lawson Well was was not, you know, when, when and wher[…]
[…]lf, introduce yourself.Howard Lanning 1:14 My name is Howard Lanning. I was born in 1932, in the East End of London, and I've been in the film industry as a Film and Sound Editor for more than 50 years.Derek Threadgall 1:35 Then we get into the meat of it.Unknown Speaker &nbs[…]
[…]n 1920, May, in Rugby in Warwickshire. And my father kept a photographic chemist's shop. And so we had, uh, sold cameras, and I served customers with films and loaded the cameras. [laughter] I was the boy for all the people who'd bought expensive cameras and then had to get a shop assistant to load […]
