Peter de Normanville

Alan Lawson  0:00  the copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Pieter de Normanville, documentary film director, interviewer, is John Taylor, recorded on the 28th of February 1991. With interjections from his wife, Sarah Erulkar side one.John Taylor  1:11 &n[…]

Jonathan Balcon

[…]ly you are right. But can I just say that to start as it were in the middle, as I think you know, he was knighted in 1947 for services to the British film industry during the war. He was also a Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olaf, Norway, which he and Charlie Frend acquired I think because o[…]

Sydney Samuelson

24 Jun 1988The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Sidney Samuelson CBE, Entrepreneur, Chairman of Samuelson Film Service. Interviewer, Alan LawsonSide One.  Q: Sidney, when and where were you born?SAMUELSON: I was born in Paddington in Warrington Crescent I […]

Virginia McKenna

[…]at you’d made this choice by now?VM: I was, yes. I felt ready in myself to start earning my living and getting on with life, yes.JR: So, there was no filming at this stage – this was all theatre?VM: Yes. It was 1950, I was in London at the Haymarket Theatre. In those days, there was a wonderful thea[…]

Charles Cooper

[…]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[…]

BEHP 0721 T NORMAN J

[…] She would do anything to go and see the next film. She was always telling me stories about how when […]

Robert M (Bob) Angell

[…]the result was that I spent from September 1939, till early 1946. Alan Lawson  2:40  And the artillery, you have any great interest in films or cinema?Unknown Speaker  2:45  school?Robert Angel  2:46  Yes, I always was interested from an early age in the theatre an[…]

John Shearman

[…]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[…]

John Aldred

[…] sound engineer , sound recordist and dubbing mixer in the film industry from 1937 -1986 . Worked in order at: […]

Norman J Warren

[…] 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[…]
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