[…]know that!Jim Shields: Yes - no, no, I just this second started it, Maurice.Maurice Askew: Well I started in the industry in 1938, with The Religious Film Society.Jim Shields: Ah hmm... and they're tied up with J.W. then were they?Maurice Askew: No.Jim Shields: They were a separate entity...Maurice […]
[…]ncle’ Mac in the family – he was never an uncle but in those days you called everybody uncle. He turned out to be David MacDonald who was a reputable film director in those days. I went down to Lime Grove studios with my dad and sat on the set. In his chair. And started work next Monday. In the scen[…]
[…]ack to London.SF: How old are you now, roughly?Twenty-two, twenty-three.SF: Had the cinema, the industry – not the industry – but films, impinged a great deal on you?No. I mean films had, one of my first film memories is of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, which of course c[…]
ALFIE COX SIDE 1.WAV [00:00:02.440] - Alan Lawson The copyright of this recording is vested in the Bectu History Project. Alfie Cox feature film editor. INTERVIEWER Alan Lawson with Syd Wilson recorded on the 18th of November 1992 side won.[00:00:29.680] - Alan Lawson I should have th[…]
[…]o Ferry Road in Teddington when I was roughly 4 years old, because I went to a school at the end of the road when I was 5. He at that time was making films, producing and directing as far as I know at Teddington Studios.SC: What was his first name?RP: Harry Parkinson. I do remember one incident from[…]
[…] Baird television company, and then for Marconi before entering the film industry as a sound engineer at British Instructional films […]
