Tom Peacock

[…] do fibrous plaster work at night school, he entered the film industry as a plasterer in the late 1930s. SUMMARY: […]

Joe McGrath

[…]r - this was as you’ll probably know this was Jonathan Routh was going out and - er- involving people in japes and wheezes and - and  - er - you filmed it from a hidden camera which was supplied to us by the Samuelson family - and David Samuelson CBE and people like that were all locked in cupb[…]

Joy Cuff (née Seddon)

[…]yes, 2 years foundation and 2 years intermediate and then you get your NDD so it's a 4 years course. 0:04:29.9 MIKE: So how did you get into the film and television industry? 0:04:32.0 JOY: Well, I didn't want to be directed to education and teachers because that's what they used to do... […]

Angela Allen

[…]ild of British Camera Technicians (GBCT) and was awarded the MBE (Member of the British Empire) in the Queen's New Year’s Honour's List in 1996. Film titles are in bold textUnknown words have been highlighted in yellow Side 1So can you tell us where and when you were born?Yes, I was born i[…]

James (Jimmy) Gilbert

[…] people like, the times that I went which was in the 30s were people like Dave willis who was my personal favourite, and Will Fyffe who had gone into films of course by that time, and Harry Gordon, the Laird of Inversnecky, there was Jack Radcliffe, I can't remember all of them. The ones I remember […]

Joy Batchelor

[…]elor: He was the cameraman, he was gorgeous. And in fact the only one of that bunch who did anything afterwards, apart from me.Kay Mander: Were these films for cinema?Joy Batchelor: Yes they were, but they only had a short life and a gay one. He had very good connections, this bloke, and our film - […]

Erica Masters

[…] the light of the Anschluss. Coming to England she studied film under William Hunter at Dartington College in Devon, before […]

Ted Candy Transcript

[…] always remember it, we worked out of 142 Wardour Street, Film House, I had to go to Marble Arch where […]

Anne Hanford

[…] for somebody to fill her job which was in their library.  Library in the sense that they owned books and periodicals, it was nothing to do with film or anything but it was working for Associated-Rediffusion.  So, because I wasn’t very happy there I went for an interview and lo and behold […]

John Hogarth

[…]ssful dressmaker. And she had - amongst many of her clients - she had a lady whose husband happened to be at that time the general sales manager of a film company called British Lion Film Corporation. And Sidney Myers was looking, or somebody within British Lion was looking for some young blood, and[…]
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