Jack Hildyard

[…]t he had a lot of friends in the city that before he was readyUnknown Speaker  1:57  for what made you did? What made you decide to go into films. One day,Unknown Speaker  2:05  a friend,Unknown Speaker  2:08  I metUnknown Speaker  2:10  a friend andUnknown Sp[…]

Keith Ewart

[…]or 90 seconds. He has no important role and should be well left out. And in fact, usually is left out if you're doing it commercially. You they did a film 40 years ago, and they where they got Danny Kaye to do that, and now this person wants Paul McCartney. I couldn't do that, although that's the wa[…]

Adrian (Andy) Worker

[…] we usually start out by saying when and where were you born? Andy Worker: Well I was born in Bedfordshire in 1916. I always wanted to be in the film industry and during the war I got the opportunity - I was a cost accountant, and I got a job at Shepherd's Bush. Much to my surprise I found that[…]

Roy Fowler

[…] I had decided that I was going to be the greatest director since David Wark Griffith it was around that time.  My mother always said “He’s film barmy” because I was always trotting off or insisting on being taken if I couldn’t get in by myself, even then I was keeping up. Kevin Brown[…]

Yvonne Littlewood

Yvonne Littlewood DRAFT. Tape 1 Side AThis recording was transcribed by funds from the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, University of Leeds) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University). ([…]

Mickey Hickey

[…] they'd teach you what they could as regards making a film up and joining the two reels together, and making […]

Michael (Mickey) Hickey

[…]nds a week. And for about two or three weeks, or a month, they would take this money off you and they'd teach you what they could as regards making a film up and joining the two reels together, and making joins. Because you didn't have the automatic joins in those days, everything had to be done wit[…]
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