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[…] Jul 28, 2008 05:40 PM BIOGRAPHY: Pat Jackson entered the film industry in 1933 as an assistant at the GPO […]

[…]he was very talented, when she wasn’t working for Edgar Wallace, mainly in the theatre,LH: Edgar Wallace, apart from being a writer, was presumably a film director-WR: Well for some time – I was so young Les that I don’t really know – he almost took over Beaconsfield Studios, which we were living al[…]

[…]tMike Dick  0:10  of this recording is vested in the British entertainment history project. The name of the interviewee is Rebecca O'Brien, film producer. The date was the 22nd of March, 2017, and the interviewer is Mike dick, okay, Rebecca, can you briefly tell me who you are and what you[…]

[…]stree in 1940, 41, they were all a bit astounded because this was the first genuine cockney voice they heard. Because all those kids who were in this film came from acting school. Where it seemed to me, they were deemed to have the great talent taken out of them. In other words, the way they normall[…]

[…]odness me! Yes!Pat Jackson: So that didn't help. So I was now sixteen, and I got, through a dear old friend of mine, Henry Blyth - who was one of the film critics on the Times, later on - brilliant chap! [NB: could be Henry Blyth, screenwriter, b 1911, who was co-writer of Jackson's Seven Keys in 19[…]

[…]go Derek starting at the beginning when and where were you born.SPEAKER: M8I was born in Harwich Essex on 18th November 1938 and went to see my first film. Locals in the mob. At the age of approximately five years old. That film was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.SPEAKER: F1It attracted me even at […]

[…] Ipswich public school. But we were taken to the cinema but rarely our parents who both was religious I had an elder sister and a younger brother for films  that they considered a suitable to see with cheddar kitten? in the jungle, things like that. Anything dramatic, romantic and so on was for[…]

[…]raham: Was this while you were still at school.Alan Lawson: I was still at school.Arthur Graham: So it was part time. What decided you to go into the film business.Alan Lawson: My sister was on the stage, she was a ballet dancer and I think when I was due to leave school which would have been July 1[…]

[…]p;Sorry, I interrupted you. So did you. Do you have any brothers or sisters? No. And what was your first inclinations of feeling you're interested in film?Speaker 1  8:31  Well, I was first interested in presenting films at home. When I was about nine or 10 I hadn't got any thought of actu[…]

[…]p;Sorry, I interrupted you. So did you. Do you have any brothers or sisters? No. And what was your first inclinations of feeling you're interested in film?Speaker 1  8:31  Well, I was first interested in presenting films at home. When I was about nine or 10 I hadn't got any thought of actu[…]