Stanley Watkins

[…]he labs, I think it was Maxfield, I think, but we don't remember, definitely, got together with Jack Kiley one day, and we said, how fast do they run films now? And he said, Well, they taken  16 frames a second, and they reproduce them in the first run houses at about 80 or 90 feet a minut[…]

Ron Goodwin

[…]the elephant in Castle, and I know they had a big cinema there.Speaker 2  8:15  Yeah, it was marvelous, because you got a wonderful feature film about, I don't know how long the stage presentation was, but it seemed like about an hour, you know, and at the Big West End center was the stand[…]

Michael Colomb

[…]m room to room. And really, the whole thing clinched itself a mutual friend, David McCallum and he used to live in the homes with a brother who was a film editor, Douglas I've only didn't meet him very much. But he was the senior fire guard. Yes. And we live next door to the deputy Fire Guard who so[…]

Harold Myers

[…]net.comSpeaker 1  0:03  The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History ProjectUnknown Speaker  0:10  Harold Myers, film journalist, correspondent for variety, interviewed by Sid CO on the 23rd of July, 1989 at his home in rotting Dean side one.Sid Cole  0:35 &[…]

Adrian (Andy) Worker

[…] we usually start out by saying when and where were you born? Andy Worker: Well I was born in Bedfordshire in 1916. I always wanted to be in the film industry and during the war I got the opportunity - I was a cost accountant, and I got a job at Shepherd's Bush. Much to my surprise I found that[…]

billywilliamsbectu-tape4

[…] Billy Williams: Perhaps I should, why not. It was a film called Stellawith Bette Midler and she is under contract […]

Norman Fisher

[…]History Project - Interview No. 101[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: Unknown - draft analytical transcription by Sarah Easen, British Universities Film and Video CouncilInterview Date: 1989-09-25Interviewer: Roy FowlerInterviewee: Norman FisherTape 1, Side 1Roy Fowler: Copyright of the following […]

Bill Girdlestone

[…] I started work in the' office of the Automobile Association in St James's Street as an office boy.Fowler/Lawson: Oh, well how come you got into films?Bill Girdlestone: Well, I was the original film buff. I had a home cinema at about 12. A local sweet shop started to sell film, six feet a […]

Norman Fisher

[…] Unknown - draft analytical transcription by Sarah Easen, British Universities Film and Video Council Interview Date: 1989-09-25 Interviewer: Roy Fowler […]
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