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[…]operator in engineering division. But, so I was after this I I think we had a month in London being trained. One of the people who trained me was the film director Ken Hughes. Do you remember Ken Hughes? John P. Hamilton  15:06  Oh indeed yes, yes. John Ammonds &nb[…]

[…]with me. He was now a charge hand for mentors that was building Denham studios. FG, Minter and I came down to join him. And of course, when I go into film, doesn't it? There was no more thought of South Africa because we were on night work, and we were living earning an excess of 11 pound a week. An[…]

[…] Gunn; Dave Davies got to a stage where he was working with every print manager at every major distributor –United Artists, Columbia, Warner, General Film; because Technicolor was a secret process, nobody was allowed into the laboratory; one department could not go into another; he built up a rappor[…]

This 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). (2015).BECTU History ProjectInterview n[…]

[…]g, irrespective of what was going up on the screen, and my Father wouldn’t accept this, so he used to drum it into us, he said you’ve got to help the film, and he even wrote little pieces to fit certain situations, and some of our musicians in Blue Hall heard about all this and they used to peep ove[…]