[…]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[…]
[…] 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[…]
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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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 […]
[…] in 2015 by the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell […]
[…] get home during that time I somehow became interested in film. And I want to handle film on. And I […]
This transcription was provided in 2015 by the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, Leeds University) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University).BECTU History Project Interview no: N/K Inter[…]
[…]e things. So, starting, I guess at the beginning, you're the daughter of Michael Balcon, who is one of the founding fathers of the British film industry. And I'd like I suppose to start with him, your memories of him going, going back to your earliest recollections. Is that pos[…]