Christine Whittaker

[…]horst one.  At that time I was finding people, going to see people, in Germany and in Britain, finding participants and I also started to do the film research and I remember my first visit to the Imperial War Museum and being absolutely fascinated by this film that was running … I hadn’t a clue[…]

Dawn Stanford

[…]st learning counting. Yeah. So I did that. Which was backbreaking to say the least and those guysManny Yospa  8:43  are clothes cutting all film cutting.My father was a tailor a master tailors about the smutter trends, right. Big electrical. It was it was very hard.Dawn Stanford  8:59[…]

Eileen Diss

[…] after that, and then when I went into the fifth form and then into the sixth form I had a friend who was also a movie addict. We used to go miles to film societies and I would see all the French films and the Italian films. It was that period immediately after the war when all the French output, of[…]

Gerry Anstiss

Alan Lawson  0:04  The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Jerry Anstiss, camera operator feature films. interviewers, Alan Lawson, and Sid Wilson, recorded on the first of September 1993. side onefirst and foremost, when and where were you born?Gerry Anstis[…]

Ray (Ramon) Morse

[…]How did that come about?Ray Morse  6:19  I used to have an uncle that lived out there was almost an American, you know, and he worked on on films. You know, in the early days, it was sort of an odd jobs man is to carry the camera about and do bits of crowd work and stuff like that. Because[…]

Desmond Dickinson

[…]Brownlow (1972) (KB)05/07/1963 and 30/07/19723 Tapes Interview with Ralph Bond (1963)Side 100:00:00 – 00:05:22 Introductions; DD first entered a film studio in 1914 at the age of 12; a cousin asked to be an extra on the film England Wake Up with cameraman Otto Rieve and director Tom Watts; his […]

ARMSTRONG, Moira BECTU copy

[…] in 2015 by the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell […]
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