[…]orest of Dean, in Gloucestershire. And my father was a mining engineer [pause] and 1:01 there was a colliery nearby my mother had been in early films. In fact, she played parts in early films and her name was Magarey Lorring, for those films.Norman Swallow: Is that Loring?Julia Cave: Lor[…]
[…]chool, and having received my education there and then done quite a lot of photography, I then started on the first steps towards anything to do with films. In other words, I went to what was then known as boat court, the what was then the London College of photo engraving and lithography in Fleet S[…]
[…] was part time. What decided you to go into the film business. Alan Lawson: My sister was on the stage, […]
[…]anner: Let's say it was in the very early 20s and it was in Tilford, Surrey.Roy Fowler: You were in a family which had connections with the film or entertainment business.Peter Tanner: None, my father died when I was very young and I was the only child and my mother had to bring me up[…]
[…] Peter Tanner: I've been nominated to the British Guild of Film Editors, but that was for work over a period of […]
[…]was Alexander corder that came to call basically and said he was he was Hungarian and the Jewish. I'd like you to write the music for this particular film. I can't remember the name of the film that film but he did a lot of films for Alexander Calder. And during that period of time from 1933 I mean […]
[…]he bosses then were A.C. and R.C. Bromhead and the studio manager was Bernard Bromhead, and it was all in the family kind of thing, you know? And the film that was in production when I arrived there was Jack Buchanan and Betty Balfour, and I can't remember the name of the film but they were the two […]
[…]n at an earlyage, about 3 or 4, where I've been ever since for which I'm dulygrateful because if I'd been kept up there I would never have entered thefilm industry.AG: What kind of schooling did you receive?DB: I went to a little private school, a day school in the late 20s andearly 30s, from 7 to 1[…]
[…] had the greatest good luck to hit upon Gaumont-British Instructional, who at that time, were making a great number of natural history and zoological films under the guidance of Julian Huxley, and Professor Hewer of Imperial College. Those were the days of Mary Field's Secrets of Life and Secrets of[…]
