[…]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 […]
[…]hrough my brother I went and got the jobRoy Fowler: How did your brother connect with Alfred JungeMaurice Carter: He was assistant to Alfred Junge on films like xxxRoy Fowler: Although trained as an architect he was in the film industryMaurice Carter: He was a draughtsman, and the need was for / dra[…]
[…]like to do is start right at the very beginning. We'd like to talk right through your life and your work in the world of archives and other things in film.AF: Okay.MW: But let's start at the very beginning: where abouts were you born? AF: I was born on a farm called Old Montrose four miles outs[…]
[…]tarted a radio business, which was very successful and I made a lot of money. I got a bit bored with it and I had a cousin who was making advertising films and he asked me if I'd like to join them. So I went in with them, with his two partners and him and we started in um - in fact what we did, do y[…]
[…]orest of Dean, in Gloucestershire. And my father was a mining engineer [pause] and 1:01 there was a colliery nearby my mother had been in early films. In fact, she played parts in early films and her name was Magarey Lorring, for those films.Norman Swallow: Is that Loring?Julia Cave: Lor[…]
[…]anner: Let's say it was in the very early 20s and it was in Tilford, Surrey.Roy Fowler: You were in a family which had connections with the film or entertainment business.Peter Tanner: None, my father died when I was very young and I was the only child and my mother had to bring me up[…]
[…]certainly in the early part of my life, affected the way I thought about things and it was really good, having two cultures, particularly in terms of film. I always, always, loved French films more than English films, or British films. Much later on I was very fortunate in working with Truffaut, on […]
[…]nbsp; 1:16  And what production was he gauging at the time, or Bobbi Riesel  1:22  he was, he wasn't making a film at the time. He had just made journey to England about a year or two years before, two years, oh, it was about that time actually weren't recordi[…]
[…]in Gloucester Road in Bristol and bought myself my first camera which was an Exa 500 German Single Lens Reflex Camera and a few rolls of transparency film but the guy on the shop was very much an enthusiast and he did his own pictures, he showed me some wonderful shots obviously he’d taken and that […]
[…]gets and engineering and so forth, and I felt this was really a tremendous shock to me when he died. I started - as far as going into photography and filmmaking, when I was thirteen. I think for my bar mitzvah I received two box cameras, two cameras, and started with photography and set up a dark ro[…]
