[…]ery anxious for me to get into the firm. And I was anxious to get into motion pictures! My eldest sister had written quite a few original stories for films. At that time the principal film industry was not in Hollywood, but in New Jersey, across the River, the Hudson River, from Manhattan, from New […]
[…]e my grandfather was very interested in photography and he also at one time, before I came around, had in fact a movie camera and did a lot of family filming which, much to my sorrow, he gave away the film to a distant cousin of mine andI’ve never seen it. But he in fact did build his own little hom[…]
[…] always remember it, we worked out of 142 Wardour Street, Film House, I had to go to Marble Arch where […]
[…]rs and things like that. Have you had any [inaudible]?Well, I’m a Fellow of the Royal College of Art, and, I’ve got a BAFTA.For?A Channel 4 film Cutting Edge: Casualties.Ah, OK. And your parents did what? It’s sort of relevant.[laughs] My father was in the Army, and, Medical Corp[…]
[…]ild of British Camera Technicians (GBCT) and was awarded the MBE (Member of the British Empire) in the Queen's New Year’s Honour's List in 1996. Film titles are in bold textUnknown words have been highlighted in yellow Side 1So can you tell us where and when you were born?Yes, I was born i[…]
[…]amera mechanics were stuck in a time mold. As far as engineering was concerned, their engineering base was in the early 1900s when they moved over to film, they divorced themselves from general engineering, and they stayed with films so, so they were doing things in the 1950sUnknown Speaker 4:[…]
[…] was a bit annoyed when good old ACTT said that film editors in animation aren't paid the right rate. Well, that's […]
[…]r - this was as you’ll probably know this was Jonathan Routh was going out and - er- involving people in japes and wheezes and - and - er - you filmed it from a hidden camera which was supplied to us by the Samuelson family - and David Samuelson CBE and people like that were all locked in cupb[…]
[…] was the start of me er...you know, really in the film...because I was bred and born with it I think... […]
[…] at the age of 14 and went to work.Alan Lawson: Um...What, what do you mean by work?Cyril Page: Well, when I was at school I started er...showing the films to the school on the Friday afternoon, so I could get out of doing lessons, and I had an old 9.5 Ace Projector, hand-turn, and we used to do the[…]
