Barrie Merritt

[…] on further education of any kind. So I left and went into work. And I happen to live next door to a young girl who was working at the pearl and Dean film studio in the trace and paint department. And she mentioned to me that the animation studios, were looking for a new junior runner basically to g[…]

Cy Young transcript

[…] Yeah it was you do . I was the first film editor on Tiswas I like to do that was chaotic […]

Peter Williams

[…];  PW: I’m not sure how you can answer that question without conceit. It’s always an honour to be recognised for what you’ve done. From the filming point of view probably, although I’ve won a number of awards in Milan and New York and the American festivals, the one that I probably remembe[…]

Cy Young

[…]chool. Of which the most famous old boy was William Friese Green. So I was off to a good start. Then inference is correct.BG Where did you first love filmsCY My dad he used to take us through the pictures and when he got home he'd have mini quizzes I think know little puzzles and quiz questions base[…]

Mary Harvey (Welford)

[…]ber 1996. Side One.We’re going.Yes. Okay.Right.Right Mary, tell us about your childhood, where you were born, how you, educated and how you came into films?I was born in Cornwall in October 1919 and very shortly after that, about three months or less, went to New York with my father, mother and my e[…]

Jill Langley

[…] is Joe Langley. The interview our is Mike deke. On camera is our CO show. The interview number is 415. The date is the 28th of April 2022. And we're filming at her daughter's Claudia's home in Wimbledon.Unknown Speaker  0:23  Okay, Joe, can you tell me where when you were born? I was born[…]

Phyllis Dalton

[…]w what it is, but it’s jolly heavy. All thatyardage, I think she could hardly stand up in it. And I remember during that time was my first visit to a film studio ever and I think we went to Denholm one day and I thought the wardrobe mistress was terribly hard-hearted because she wouldn’t change some[…]

David Watkin

[…]d in Margate until the war; as a child DW would got to the cinema every week; very little of his early life had anything to do with his career in the film industry, when he left the army in 1947 he knew he didn’t want to work in an office; Southern Rail had a small film unit for training under Water[…]

Bessie Bond (née Span)

[…]with ACT?A Through Ralph. Ralph knew Grierson and we spent any free time we had was at the cinema and Ralph had a book where he had a review of every film and he got to know Grierson even while he was working at the party headquarters.Q Was he then reviewing films for the Daily Worker or...A He[…]

Robert Beatty

[…]t Beatty: I think they did try up to a point but it was a bit of a hopeless task really.Roy Fowler: One of the most noticeable thing to me in British films at that time are the extraordinary cut glass accents which especially the women had. Real white telephone stuff. Those two shows in the West End[…]
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