Tilly Day (continuity) 1903-1994by admin — last modified Jul 28, 2008 04:32 PMBIOGRAPHY: Tilly Day worked on over 300 British films between the 1920s and 1970s, most particularly as ‘continuity girl’. Her career began at Walthamstow Studios in the 1917 and she received her first credit in […]
[…] to London with my family until 1946. 00.53 The first film I ever saw, strangely enough, was Nanook of the […]
[…] Auxiliary Territorial Service during WWII and subsequently returned to the film industry, working for Rank and Hammer studios among others. […]
[…] born at that time, but then I grew up for the rest of the war in the country and did not go back to London with my family until 1946.00.53 The first film I ever saw, strangely enough, was Nanook of the North which I saw quite soon after coming back to London. It was partly because my father was Can[…]
[…]father's thinking was you better go to Britain because that's where you'll learn the trade rather than stand South Africa which of course had no real film industry. Well Harry what was working there at the time.SPEAKER: M6He was doing the sequel to the film he had done about a lion family. So I came[…]
[…]where?Anthony Mendleson : Where?Linda Wood : Ah hmm.Anthony Mendleson : London.Linda Wood : London, yes. Did your family have any connection with the film industry or...?Anthony Mendleson : No not at all.Linda Wood : Not at all...?Anthony Mendleson : Ah hmm.Linda Wood : And, did you go to the cinema[…]
[…] London, yes. Did your family have any connection with the film industry or...? Anthony Mendleson : No not at all. […]
[…] 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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]cording and transcript is vested in the BECTU History Project. Bryan Langley was interviewed by Arthur Graham on 18 November 1987.1. Improvising with film stockAG: We're on the different types of film stocks. What were their differences, and what were their special requirements as far as shooting wa[…]
