[…]n 1920, May, in Rugby in Warwickshire. And my father kept a photographic chemist's shop. And so we had, uh, sold cameras, and I served customers with films and loaded the cameras. [laughter] I was the boy for all the people who'd bought expensive cameras and then had to get a shop assistant to load […]
[…] what was then called, television recording department which nowadays we call post-production. That encompassed videotape operations and telecine and film work and transmission and that sort of thing. So that’s the department I found myself in as much by luck as judgement and it’s where I stayed for[…]
[…]ddie Dryhurst: Yeah.Roy Fowler: Your family background, as I say, is documented, so why don't we start out with your first initial urgings to go into film and what films were like at that particular time, what made you feel that way about them?Eddie Dryhurst: Well we're going back to the First World[…]
Dicky Leeman (television and film director) b.1912 by admin — last modified Aug 15, 2008 01:39 PM BIOGRAPHY: Born in […]
[…] main fundraising event would be midnight matinee of a feature film. Then film industry had one of its crises and […]
[…]father's thinking was you better go to Britain because that's where you'll learn the trade rather than stand South Africa which of course had no real film industry. Well Harry what was working there at the time.SPEAKER: M6He was doing the sequel to the film he had done about a lion family. So I came[…]
[…] wanted something that gave me freedom that I could find as an alternative to fashion art,which was my then passion. And I didn’t know anything about films at all, but I sort offelt that documentary films seemed to offer me something that interested me. But I didn’tknow anybody in films and I had no[…]
[…] the rebuilding of Plymouth, Jill Craigie was a committed documentary film-maker and socialist throughout her career. Having worked as a […]
[…]a job, and then in the afternoon, if I got into the Gaumont State at Kilburn before two o'clock I could get in for sixpence. And we had a big feature film, a B film, the news, an hour's variety programme, and an organ recital. And it was a good place for an out of work actor to sit down and rest him[…]
