[…]t to thank you Peter for taking part in this. So just to start, perhaps you could tell us a little bit about your early career when you went into the film industry?PL: Well I won a scholarship and I didn’t get the eleven-plus, but there was a scholarship available for thirteen-plus and I won it, wit[…]
[…]ut on bioscope shows. Chris Strachan 2:32 That's absolutely right. Yes, they in the days between 1896 and 1909 This is how films were shown throughout most of the land. It was traveling showmen like Charles Thurston with their bioscopes on village greens and shows in villa[…]
[…]nds a week. And for about two or three weeks, or a month, they would take this money off you and they'd teach you what they could as regards making a film up and joining the two reels together, and making joins. Because you didn't have the automatic joins in those days, everything had to be done wit[…]
Yvonne Littlewood DRAFT. Tape 1 Side AThis recording was transcribed by funds from the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, University of Leeds) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University). ([…]
[…] also a movie addict. We used to go miles to film societies and I would see all the French films […]
[…] by funds from the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell […]
[…]0 The copyright that this recording is vested in the British Entertainment History Project. The name of the interviewee is Madeline Smith; film, television and theatre actress and radio. The interviewer is Mike Dick, and John Luton is on camera. The interview number is seven two two and t[…]
[…]neer. Who came over from America magazine called Mac Ames now me to a young lad that was quite something I mean we'd seen.SPEAKER: F5Americans in the films and all that sort of thing. But here was a real live American with an American car which he brought over called a Chevrolet and that was an obje[…]
