Maxwell Setton

[…] So I went up and asked her to dance and she asked if I had seen films. I said I know nothing about shows I showed her has housing law and s[…]

Christopher Challis

[…]any longer. It was hit by a flying bomb during the war. I don't think there was anything particularly of note during my school career. I always liked films. I wanted to get into films. From an early age I liked the cinema. I was interested in photography. My father was interested in photography, jus[…]

Charlotte Jennings

[…]nbsp;The copyright of this recording is vested in the actt history project.Charlotte Jennings, artist, daughter of Humphrey Jennings, the documentary film director, poet, and artist,recorded on the 17th of December 1990. side one interview, Alan Lawson Well was was not, you know, when, when and wher[…]

John Wiles

[…]a century. I know  you started off in the camera department became a cameraman. And that you ended up as the producer of those specialised  films 50 years is quite time, how did it all begin?John Wiles  0:43  Well, I suppose it began really with my, as a kid I had an interest in […]

Dennis Kimbley

[…] post office once you were there.Roy Fowler  1:31  So your family,Dennis Kimbley  1:32  family had no connections at all with the film business. But I always wanted to get into the film industry. But then I didn't think I'd get I had no experience. Obviously I had no I didn't thi[…]

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[…] 2008 02:43 PM BIOGRAPHY: E. M. Smedley Aston entered the film industry as a runner at British International Pictures in […]

Sarah Erulkar (de Normanville)

[…]l kids, you know, that kind of thing. It really wasn't a good thing. And quite honestly, the best thing that happened to me, I think, was joining the film industry. Next best thing was coming to Hampstead (laughter) which was very relaxed... About colour and religion. 03:57At school did you hav[…]

E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]there for I suppose it was about 15 years or so and then we moved nearer London to Great Missenden, and it was from Great Missenden that I started in films. I should say that when I left school in 1929 I went into the advertising industry and I was going to be with Mather and Crowther...Roy Fowler:&[…]

Edward (Teddy) Carrick (Craig)

[…]and strangely enough even though he used to fight against the cinema, you know, he really couldn't stand the cinema, on principle. But he had certain films he loved to go and see again and again with Harry Bower in it for example. He didn't like the films and when I went into the films he was absolu[…]

Cynthia Moody

[…] 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[…]
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