[…] off?NORMAN J. WARREN: Absolutely no. The only thing is my parents, both of them, particularly my mother, were absolutely just complete[ly] mad about films, you know, real cinema fans. My mother in particular. She would do anything to go and see the next film. She was always telling me stories about[…]
[…]I'm afraid I can't remember. I believe it was pretty much of a solo effort. I mentioned moving images because further on I saw an advertisement for a film projector complete with film and battery for 12 s. and 6d so I had to save up all my pocket money which I think in those days was sixpence a week[…]
[…]ker  0:06  The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project.Unknown Speaker  0:13  John Sherman, documentary film producer, filmmaker, interviewer, Alan Lawson, on the 26thUnknown Speaker  0:23  of October,Unknown Speaker  0:26  side one.U[…]
[…] we’ve got to ask today. So, I wonder if you could just begin by giving an overview – if I can take you back slightly – in how your early interest in film and colour photography started. Where did that spark on interest come from?CF: I started out… my first work as such was for Kodak, and there was […]
[…]ly have to go to get some silks or things for lampshades or things, or different things for the set, you know? And that was my first job in the film industry.ALAN LAWSON: So really your transport problem was partly solved then of getting to Elstree?HARRY MILLER: Not really, I still had to catc[…]
[…]      Transcript edited by Alan Masson 23/08/2019 with comments in [parenthesis] CR: How did your interest in film technology begin? What sparked that interest and how did it develop?AM: Yes. At the age of about 10 I was given a classic Kodak Box Brownie camer[…]
[…]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[…]
JOHN SCHLESINGER Feature film director Interviewer Norman Swallow, recorded on 30 March 1994 Copyright of the recording is vested in BECTU History Project SIDE 1, TAPE 1 Norman Swallow: Let's go back to day one, when where you born and where. John Schlesinger: I was bor[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]pril 39, in London town and the sound of bow bells. So not quite a Cockney, but can you tell me a bit about your family and how you came to be in the film industry?Right. My family consisted of a father who was in the engineering business, who would started making his own films and when he was young[…]
