[…]cularly speak with a Scottish accent, Linda Wood 0:54like further. Did you have any specialised training before you started working in the film industry? Donald Wilson 1:05I went to the Glasgow School of Art. And that's the only specialised training I have. Because I had I left[…]
[…] playing Robespierre, and 'When Knights Were Bold', that was another film that Nelson Keys was in. His son was John […]
[…]2-12Interview Date: ??? Interviewer: Ralph Bond ?Interviewee: Ivor Montagu NB: This is evidently the transcript of the soundtrack of a filmed interview with Ivor Montagu (details not given on tape)Tape 1, Side 1Interviewer : How would you evaluate the effectiveness of the independent […]
[…]at was called "the lower floor" at Stolls. [Coughs] On the upper floor was Welsh-Pearson, who was doing things like 'Yellow Stockings', and such like films. People like...um...Dickinson...Rodney Giesler : ...DickinsonL.P. Williams : ...whose wife, Joanna McFaddyen, had been a student with me. He was[…]
[…]; JIM WHITTELL: 1922 Dinnington. 1927 the Queen’s Hall, Dover. And my father who was the by that time projectionist and film booker argued with his father about sound, because his father said it was a fad and his daughter would no longer be able to play the piano to acc[…]
[…]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[…]
This 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). (2015).BECTU History ProjectInterview […]
[…]troduce myself my name is Nigel ArthurCL: My name is Cornel Arthur (laughs)NA: We’ve met before. I’m the curator of the stills library at the British Film Institute. Cornel you’re a world renowned stills photographer, so obviously there’s an affinity between us. I wondered if we could go right back […]
[…]?Philip Leacock: Bedales.Stephen Peet: So, did you do, then, at school, any specialised training, or - put it this way, why did you decide to go into films? Was it at somebody's suggestion, or somebody you met?Philip Leacock: Um, It really started possibly because they had a very nice darkroom at th[…]
[…]1926 19. And I actually did a programme once the cinema the you know, the festival did our kinda festival the British cinematographers and I ran some films there. And I found myself standing on this stage and thinking about stuff. You know, I was born almost where I'm standing now talking to people […]
