Joy Batchelor

[…]elor: He was the cameraman, he was gorgeous. And in fact the only one of that bunch who did anything afterwards, apart from me.Kay Mander: Were these films for cinema?Joy Batchelor: Yes they were, but they only had a short life and a gay one. He had very good connections, this bloke, and our film - […]

Michael Darlow transcript

[…] main fundraising event would be midnight matinee of a feature film. Then film industry had one of its crises and […]

Anne Hanford

[…] for somebody to fill her job which was in their library.  Library in the sense that they owned books and periodicals, it was nothing to do with film or anything but it was working for Associated-Rediffusion.  So, because I wasn’t very happy there I went for an interview and lo and behold […]

Ronnie Noble

[…] a bit of shorthand typing. Away. Can you remember when you started in the film industry. Well yes I can because some it was an accident really in that.&nb[…]

Tom Peacock

[…] do fibrous plaster work at night school, he entered the film industry as a plasterer in the late 1930s. SUMMARY: […]

Ernest Marsh

[…]amlet in in Suffolk called Somerton, and That's basically where I've had my early years, I went to the local schools and where I first had a piece of film in my hand, piece of 9.5 film of Alan bes army, and with a hand cranked 9.5 projector. I was there for the rest, rest of my younger life, and eve[…]

Jim Peters

[…]hirty years!" because there was no natural progression from there. They had a Staff Photographer, Harry Wilson, and I was there simply to process his films and, at that time, we used to send out lots of stills to newspapers so that was my job to deal with that and because of Union demarcation and al[…]

Johnny Goodman

[…] Goodman was born in 1927 in Walthamstow. He entered the film industry as a page boy at the Gaumont-British Studios […]

Erica Masters

[…] the light of the Anschluss. Coming to England she studied film under William Hunter at Dartington College in Devon, before […]

Francis Searle

[…]ar and surface wear, so they had to be balanced. So it was a bit of a, you know, correctly, balanced. Do you rememberRoy Fowler  35:51  the film that was involved? Oh, I don't know. No, not the film, but it may well have been Don Juan or Don Juan. I imagine Don Juan being Warner Brothers.S[…]
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