[…]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 […]
[…]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[…]
[…] was part time. What decided you to go into the film business. Alan Lawson: My sister was on the stage, […]
[…] do much film-work after that. There was an exhibition, a film exhibition and the Germans had their Agfa - Agfa Films, […]
[…]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[…]
[…]ly have to go to get some silks or things for lampshades or things, or different things for the set, you know? And that was my first job in the film industry.ALAN LAWSON: So really your transport problem was partly solved then of getting to Elstree?HARRY MILLER: Not really, I still had to catc[…]
[…]nbsp; 1:16 And what production was he gauging at the time, or Bobbi Riesel 1:22 he was, he wasn't making a film at the time. He had just made journey to England about a year or two years before, two years, oh, it was about that time actually weren't recordi[…]
[…]eet, 145 Wardour Street, and his workshop was on the top and we used to meet on the top floor in the workshop. Underneath that floor was The Worker's Film Association, Alderman Joe Reeves, I don't know if you knew him?Charles Drazin: The name rings a bell, yes.Manny Yospa: He was actually the film d[…]
JOHN SCHLESINGER Feature film director Interviewer Norman Swallow, recorded on 30 March 1994 Copyright of the recording is vested in BECTU History Project SIDE 1, TAPE 1 Norman Swallow: Let's go back to day one, when where you born and where. John Schlesinger: I was bor[…]
[…] Transcript edited by Alan Masson 23/08/2019 with comments in [parenthesis] CR: How did your interest in film technology begin? What sparked that interest and how did it develop?AM: Yes. At the age of about 10 I was given a classic Kodak Box Brownie camer[…]
