[…]cularly speak with a Scottish accent, Linda Wood 0:54like further. Did you have any specialised training before you started working in the film industry? Donald Wilson 1:05I went to the Glasgow School of Art. And that's the only specialised training I have. Because I had I left[…]
Side 1 Ralph Bond 0:00 This is a tape recording with three ACTT members who have spent all or most of their working life in film laboratories. We have Bert Craik, Sam Williams, and Alf Cooper. And we're going to discuss the many, many changes that have taken place both in technical […]
Side 1Ralph Bond 0:00 This is a tape recording with three ACTT members who have spent all or most of their working life in film laboratories. We have Bert Craik, Sam Williams, and Alf Cooper. And we're going to discuss the many, many changes that have taken place both in technical condit[…]
[…]fter the other, 'till I got this big shed.Rodney Giesler: How do you mean, you opened up?Larry Allen: Well I had projectors and I was making animated films back in them days, as a boy.Rodney Giesler: Yeah, but where did you get the money to buy the projectors?Larry Allen: Well actually the projector[…]
EXTRACT: On losing the job of a lifetime:-"I said a permanent job in films or television would be like winning the pools - any kind of a job, I’d be grateful. I suddenly got a phone call one day to see this guy called Ward Thomas, so I go traipsing down to this place beh[…]
[…]with ACT?A Through Ralph. Ralph knew Grierson and we spent any free time we had was at the cinema and Ralph had a book where he had a review of every film and he got to know Grierson even while he was working at the party headquarters.Q Was he then reviewing films for the Daily Worker or...A He[…]
[…]at school and Keeble College were you a greatmovie goer? You had an interest in films then or did that come later? Norman Swallow: No, I had an interest in films&nbs[…]
[…]ort of in terms of family background, did your father or your mother's work or career or interests in any way lead into your own career as a wildlife filmmaker, cameraman. Doug Allan 1:07 It's interesting, my father was a very successful freelance photographer, mostly news[…]
[…]m room to room. And really, the whole thing clinched itself a mutual friend, David McCallum and he used to live in the homes with a brother who was a film editor, Douglas I've only didn't meet him very much. But he was the senior fire guard. Yes. And we live next door to the deputy Fire Guard who so[…]
[…]unning the operational side of Movietone until the War. He was a first class aerialphotographer, having been in the RAF as a Pilot. He specialised in film work from the air and heassigned himself to the flying jobs.Q Can you tell me his name?A Jack. When the war came he became a correspondent - war […]
