Agnes Wilkie

[…]dibly exciting and you think you are at the centre of the universe and it's like, and I should say that in those days we were still shooting stuff on film so News stopped happening, I think, at 12:30 in the day because it had to go and be processed and come back. But it didn't stop it being, feeling[…]

Graham Hartstone

[…]ld do the lighting. But of course it's the camera man that does the lighting. So I applied, I applied to Pinewood and to Beaconsfield  film studios, which was active studio at that time. And I got a very quick response back from Pinewood saying, Yes, could I go in for an interview? I […]

Jan Zilliacus

[…]de there.Was there?Y es.Ah, well my memory’s doing alright in that case. And he was tremendous friends with, with Hepworth and he made a whole lot of films over here. Mm, I don’t know how many but of course, they were short films in those days little, little tiny ones, you know. But he had an actor […]

Gerry Morrisey

[…] I just say a word about NATTKE?  NATTKE was a union primarily for craft workers in the industry, yeah? GM:   18:26 Theatre, film and television, yeah, yeah, yeah. RL:  18:27 People of that kind, they were rooted in the theatre sector. GM:   18:[…]

John Box

[…]as asked to stay in the army after the war but went back to studying architecture; JB talks about his tank regiment; JB had always been interested in films so approached a costume designer his uncle knew, who then introduced him to designer John Brown; JB was then sent to Edward Carrick, supervising[…]

Stanley W Sayer

[…]1917; attended Middlesex University College, Muswell Hill; last 2 years of education at the polytechnic on Regents Street; he moved straight into the film industry from the college; photography was a hobby from an early age; SS was introduced to Jerry Blackener at Lesley Fuller studios and worked th[…]

Geoffrey Conway

[…]nd was there until 1948, sorry I joined in 1948. I joined Kodak in 1948. Manny Yospa: As what? Geoff Conway: On the production line really, film sensitising department, manufacturing the raw based film. The sensitised base. Manny Yospa: This was stills film? Geoff Conway: All typ[…]
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