[…]ast but two or three when the winners that packed up and gone home and I was still trying to get home during that time I somehow became interested in film. And I want to handle film on. And I can remember in the art classes that we used to have Bishop's Holt if we ever have to do posters I woul[…]
[…]the earliest time that I remember him, he was head Brewer at Meux's Brewery Limited in in London, which was practically on the site where the British Film Institute later was in in the corner of great Russell Street. And I think this site was sold way back in the 20s. The Dominion Cinema, for […]
[…]the navy, and eventually I went to a naval college at Pangbourne with the idea of going on from there. By the way, during my first term there I saw a film that had been made by a pupil who had left the previous term called Ken Russell. So I just missed being a contemporary of his. I was a contempora[…]
[…] the way, during my first term there I saw a film that had been made by a pupil who had […]
[…]ghting cameraman and our producer, director, Ronald Neame. Ronald, let's start at the very beginning, you had a parentage that was very active in the film industry of its time. Ronald Neame 0:35 Yes, Roy Fowler 0:36 Elwin Neame your father and yo[…]
[…]an do this day, I could remember the excitement of going through the plush curtains into this dark and rather warm, sweaty sort of auditorium and the film was on the screen. And lo and behold, I saw it moved. I didn't know how or what. But I was hooked from that moment onwards. I, when I got a littl[…]
[…]m the original cassette recording.Tape 1 Side A.The copyright of this recording is vested in The BECTU History Project. Vivienne Collins, nee Knight, film librarian, film creditor, documentaries, interviewer John Legard with Alan Lawson, recorded on the 30th of January 1997. Side One.AL: We’re […]
[…]hat recruited Anne Fleming [BEHP Interview No 698] to the Imperial War Museum.She and I responded to the same advertisement. There was one job in the Film Department, which is the one that Anne got, and the second job in what was then termed the Department of Information Retrieval, but specifically […]
[…]today. This is the voice of Paul Frith on the 8th June 2018. So, if we can start by talking a little bit about where your interest in film and photography developed and some of your background in cinematography.PS: Yes, well I was brought up with … from the beginning with photography[…]
[…] and the last successful negotiation I ever had with a film company. From that point on itÔÇÖs been total disaster. […]
