[…]pril 39, in London town and the sound of bow bells. So not quite a Cockney, but can you tell me a bit about your family and how you came to be in the film industry?Right. My family consisted of a father who was in the engineering business, who would started making his own films and when he was young[…]
[…]to have a governess from then onwards. And sometimes if you are in a theatre, in a show, you have to have lessons in the dressing room or down in the film studio. It was all quite fascinating, all thatLW: Did you appear in any films?WT: Not while I was very young, not until I was about 14. And then […]
Dallas Bower Side 1Alan Lawson 00:02Dallas Bower: producer, television director, television producer, sound recordist, film editor, drama producer. Dallas, when and where were you born?Dallas Bower 00:19Kensington Hall Gardens, London 1907.Alan Lawson 00:2[…]
[…]ojectionist as such, because I would have said to know what the world was called projectionist in those days, but I want to be a chap that showed the films in the cinema. So when I was in front of this board to select a job and talking to set the other I didn't know anything about it, or more or les[…]
[…] a day, if you were lucky.Taylor/Peet: Was your early life a great influence on the whole of the rest of your life or influencesthat brought you into Film and Television that were going ahead, comeDenis Forman: I think probably by reaction it did. I mean it was a very holy atmosphere which Ididn't f[…]
[…] in 2015 by the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell […]
[…] rest of your life or influences that brought you into Film and Television that were going ahead, come Denis Forman: […]
Name of interviewee Susan Crockford DRAFT Tape 1 Side AThis transcription was provided in 2015 by the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, Leeds University) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co- Investigator, De Montfort U[…]
[…] There was no musical event at the Hall at all.JS: Go on, I want to find out about how people get educated musically.RA: After that, I wanted to be a film director and I think it was Gaumont British offered a course for £100 where you could be an apprentice and I put this to my father and he refused[…]
