[…], which of course has gone now, Lime Grove at Shepherd's Bush, and I started there. And the reason I started there was because my father was having a film made there. He wrote for the cinema and theatre, and I thought it would be a good idea to go into films because you didn't need any intelligence […]
[…]ddie Dryhurst: Yeah.Roy Fowler: Your family background, as I say, is documented, so why don't we start out with your first initial urgings to go into film and what films were like at that particular time, what made you feel that way about them?Eddie Dryhurst: Well we're going back to the First World[…]
[…]fter the other, 'till I got this big shed.Rodney Giesler: How do you mean, you opened up?Larry Allen: Well I had projectors and I was making animated films back in them days, as a boy.Rodney Giesler: Yeah, but where did you get the money to buy the projectors?Larry Allen: Well actually the projector[…]
[…]as they come along, Stan and come along. And after they went to the Savoy, and I remember Houston after the programme, talking about Orson Welles and filmmaking, till the wee small hours in hospitality and it was quite fascinating.Alan Lawson 13:33 We were We were in that I was returned […]
[…] to London with my family until 1946. 00.53 The first film I ever saw, strangely enough, was Nanook of the […]
[…] 28, 2008 04:21 PM BIOGRAPHY: One of Britain’s few female film directors, Muriel Box entered the British film industry working […]
[…] born at that time, but then I grew up for the rest of the war in the country and did not go back to London with my family until 1946.00.53 The first film I ever saw, strangely enough, was Nanook of the North which I saw quite soon after coming back to London. It was partly because my father was Can[…]
Interview with Aida Young The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Aida Young, film and TV series producer. Interviewer Teddy Darvas. Recorded on the 29th September 1[…]
[…]father's thinking was you better go to Britain because that's where you'll learn the trade rather than stand South Africa which of course had no real film industry. Well Harry what was working there at the time.SPEAKER: M6He was doing the sequel to the film he had done about a lion family. So I came[…]
Tilly Day (continuity) 1903-1994by admin — last modified Jul 28, 2008 04:32 PMBIOGRAPHY: Tilly Day worked on over 300 British films between the 1920s and 1970s, most particularly as ‘continuity girl’. Her career began at Walthamstow Studios in the 1917 and she received her first credit in […]
