[…] working initially in the theatre and subsequently on screen. Her film credits include The Citadel (1938) and Goodbye Mr Chips […]
[…]hirty years!" because there was no natural progression from there. They had a Staff Photographer, Harry Wilson, and I was there simply to process his films and, at that time, we used to send out lots of stills to newspapers so that was my job to deal with that and because of Union demarcation and al[…]
[…]bsp;Darrol Blake 0:16 great. Okay, tell us a bit about the family and whether they had anything to do with the business theater film. Yeah, Kent Houston 0:21 My parents were in the film industry previous to the Second World War, and in fact, during th[…]
EXTRACT: On losing the job of a lifetime:-"I said a permanent job in films or television would be like winning the pools - any kind of a job, I’d be grateful. I suddenly got a phone call one day to see this guy called Ward Thomas, so I go traipsing down to this place beh[…]
[…] there and enthusiastic. He then went out to Hollywood and became a great lighting designer in Hollywood.Roy Fowler: Yes, he directed one or two films out there, didn't he?Joan Kemp-Welch: Yes and he died, oh, I suppose about twenty years ago, didn't he?Roy Fowler: I can't remember wh[…]
[…]nd what a sound recordist was in those days because there were only two ways of doing it – you either went into broadcasting or gramophone records or films and it was practically unknown for anybody to be interested in such a thing.I was always fascinated by sounds and that is what I wanted to do. A[…]
[…]ated transcription service, supplied by John Harwood and edited by David Sharp in 2019. The numbers in square brackets are timecodes. [Filming began outside]Interviewer: Jimmie King. David Woodward on camera.[TAPE 1] Jimmie King [JK]: If you’d like to introduce yourself Bob.[…]