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[…] Jul 28, 2008 05:40 PM BIOGRAPHY: Pat Jackson entered the film industry in 1933 as an assistant at the GPO […]

[…]of this recording is vested in the ACTT history project we're interviewing Francis Cockburn I spell the name C O C K B U R N, who started life in the film industry as an editor became a producer and finally information officer interviewer is Margaret Thompson the date is the 16th of March 1990 side […]

[…]tMike Dick  0:10  of this recording is vested in the British entertainment history project. The name of the interviewee is Rebecca O'Brien, film producer. The date was the 22nd of March, 2017, and the interviewer is Mike dick, okay, Rebecca, can you briefly tell me who you are and what you[…]

[…]es. Simon rose Date of Birth second, the third 1946 work mainly in television What else do you want to know? What areas and mostly sorry, mostly as a film editor? Although not entirely.Ian Noah  0:49  And was this for documentaries orSimon Rose  0:51  Yes. Again, mostly documenta[…]

[…]stree in 1940, 41, they were all a bit astounded because this was the first genuine cockney voice they heard. Because all those kids who were in this film came from acting school. Where it seemed to me, they were deemed to have the great talent taken out of them. In other words, the way they normall[…]

[…]go Derek starting at the beginning when and where were you born.SPEAKER: M8I was born in Harwich Essex on 18th November 1938 and went to see my first film. Locals in the mob. At the age of approximately five years old. That film was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.SPEAKER: F1It attracted me even at […]

[…]odness me! Yes!Pat Jackson: So that didn't help. So I was now sixteen, and I got, through a dear old friend of mine, Henry Blyth - who was one of the film critics on the Times, later on - brilliant chap! [NB: could be Henry Blyth, screenwriter, b 1911, who was co-writer of Jackson's Seven Keys in 19[…]

[…]ation: 01:32:04 & 00:31:04 (02:03:08)[00:00:00]The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Kitty Marshall, documentary film producer. Interview, Gloria Sachs. Recorded on the first of February, 1988, side one.Although it’s considered to be impolite to ask a lady her ag[…]

[…]raham: Was this while you were still at school.Alan Lawson: I was still at school.Arthur Graham: So it was part time. What decided you to go into the film business.Alan Lawson: My sister was on the stage, she was a ballet dancer and I think when I was due to leave school which would have been July 1[…]

[…]chool, and having received my education there and then done quite a lot of photography, I then started on the first steps towards anything to do with films. In other words, I went to what was then known as boat court, the what was then the London College of photo engraving and lithography in Fleet S[…]