[…] people like, the times that I went which was in the 30s were people like Dave willis who was my personal favourite, and Will Fyffe who had gone into films of course by that time, and Harry Gordon, the Laird of Inversnecky, there was Jack Radcliffe, I can't remember all of them. The ones I remember […]
[…] to London with my family until 1946. 00.53 The first film I ever saw, strangely enough, was Nanook of the […]
[…] Drama Departments of BBC, ABC and also controller of Canadian Film Board. Intervi ewer Norman Swallow (NS ) with Alan […]
[…] born at that time, but then I grew up for the rest of the war in the country and did not go back to London with my family until 1946.00.53 The first film I ever saw, strangely enough, was Nanook of the North which I saw quite soon after coming back to London. It was partly because my father was Can[…]
[…] Did you want to become a journalist, or a playwright, or a script writer? Did you have an ambition?Jill Craigie: Well I gradually wanted to become a film writer. But before that I was always having ideas, and I didn't quite know. I didn't have any guidance. What it must be to be in a family like th[…]
[…]back up to this hut, which had a couple of holes cut in it. And they would fix the screen at the other end of the heart. And then they would beam the film for the week, with the projector outside on the back of this truck. And that truck used to go to to other places as well, it didn't just come to […]
[…]aylor: You said it was simpler in those days. So you had a good start in life.Bill Cotton Jr: In terms of the industry, yes. My brother went into the film industry, he was a pilot, a mosquito pilot during the war, and he caught TB, and when he was3rdcured of that he went to Shepperton and became a a[…]
[…] always remember it, we worked out of 142 Wardour Street, Film House, I had to go to Marble Arch where […]
[…]e did better work. But if you've got the example that went quicker to the, to the IRB, and so therefore, I started going to cinema as I used to go to films twice a week, twice a day, every week. So if Sunday's were three times a day, and that was ready, I got so that was the beginning. That was how […]
