Copyright ACTT History Project, Bill Mason, film director, film producer, recorded on 4th October 1987, interviewer Alan LawsonAL: Where were you born.BM: I was born in Edgebaston, which is the snob part of Birmingham on 9th November 1915 .AL : What kind of schooling did you receive.BM: I went to on[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] Jul 28, 2008 05:40 PM BIOGRAPHY: Pat Jackson entered the film industry in 1933 as an assistant at the GPO […]
[…] Jul 28, 2008 05:40 PM BIOGRAPHY: Pat Jackson entered the film industry in 1933 as an assistant at the GPO […]
[…]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 […]
[…]of this recording is vested in the ACTT history project we're interviewing Francis Cockburn I spell the name C O C K B U R N, who started life in the film industry as an editor became a producer and finally information officer interviewer is Margaret Thompson the date is the 16th of March 1990 side […]
[…]odness me! Yes!Pat Jackson: So that didn't help. So I was now sixteen, and I got, through a dear old friend of mine, Henry Blyth - who was one of the film critics on the Times, later on - brilliant chap! [NB: could be Henry Blyth, screenwriter, b 1911, who was co-writer of Jackson's Seven Keys in 19[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] I learned more at Pathé, I suppose, than I did at any other place, other than in television, because what I learned was the discipline of writing to film, two words a foot, and I learnt it in a very hard school, taught by two Fleet Street newspaper men, one called David [s.l. Cole 0:04:42], the oth[…]
