[…] Did you want to become a journalist, or a playwright, or a script writer? Did you have an ambition?Jill Craigie: Well I gradually wanted to become a film writer. But before that I was always having ideas, and I didn't quite know. I didn't have any guidance. What it must be to be in a family like th[…]
Elizabeth Furse 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). (201[…]
[…];out     of the airforce, a much decorated airman, and I was  the  join and we'd sit there and join film and it bored me to death. I also did a little bit in the sound department, that also bored me to death, a[…]
[…]ning, the the proprietor I presume, I think they call them Barker's in those days. He was on the front telling us with a megaphone, all the wonderful films we'd see if we went inside. There was a list of titles but the time we there were very provocative titles but not unlike it when he went into li[…]
[…] a bit of shorthand typing. Away. Can you remember when you started in the film industry. Well yes I can because some it was an accident really in that.&nb[…]
[…] wanted something that gave me freedom that I could find as an alternative to fashion art,which was my then passion. And I didn’t know anything about films at all, but I sort offelt that documentary films seemed to offer me something that interested me. But I didn’tknow anybody in films and I had no[…]
[…] people like, the times that I went which was in the 30s were people like Dave willis who was my personal favourite, and Will Fyffe who had gone into films of course by that time, and Harry Gordon, the Laird of Inversnecky, there was Jack Radcliffe, I can't remember all of them. The ones I remember […]
[…]s Hussein  7:56  Well, I was always a very imaginative child. Yes. I used even in Bombay when we were kids. Because I was full of film. I mean, we were allowed to go to the Metro cinema, which is a very glamorous thing to do. And of course, children's films, but every now and aga[…]
[…]dapest which was where all the journalists and actors and writers met and they owner of that cafe got a projector and put up a sheet and he had these film shows. And my father took Alex to see it and it seems, according to my father, that Alex said 'that is the thing for me' and that is when he got […]
