[…]a century. I know you started off in the camera department became a cameraman. And that you ended up as the producer of those specialised films 50 years is quite time, how did it all begin?John Wiles 0:43 Well, I suppose it began really with my, as a kid I had an interest in […]
[…]n 1920, May, in Rugby in Warwickshire. And my father kept a photographic chemist's shop. And so we had, uh, sold cameras, and I served customers with films and loaded the cameras. [laughter] I was the boy for all the people who'd bought expensive cameras and then had to get a shop assistant to load […]
[…]nbsp;The copyright of this recording is vested in the actt history project.Charlotte Jennings, artist, daughter of Humphrey Jennings, the documentary film director, poet, and artist,recorded on the 17th of December 1990. side one interview, Alan Lawson Well was was not, you know, when, when and wher[…]
[…] they obviously do you!" [Laughs.] She said, "We're making a film called Fire Over England at Denham Studios. Would you […]
[…]a rather than in front," she said, "all these technical things they don't interest me but they obviously do you!" [Laughs.] She said, "We're making a film called Fire Over England at Denham Studios. Would you like to come and watch it being made?" So I said, "Yes!" It was during the school holidays.[…]
[…];Ostend and across in the vote. And um anyhow uh. When the war started the film industry of course virtually came to a standstill shooting at Cannon. I think&nb[…]
[…] the rebuilding of Plymouth, Jill Craigie was a committed documentary film-maker and socialist throughout her career. Having worked as a […]
[…] Did you want to become a journalist, or a playwright, or a script writer? Did you have an ambition?Jill Craigie: Well I gradually wanted to become a film writer. But before that I was always having ideas, and I didn't quite know. I didn't have any guidance. What it must be to be in a family like th[…]
[…] In 1910 he went to workas an apprentice at a film studio in Walthamstowe, a glass studio, I believe it […]
[…]as they come along, Stan and come along. And after they went to the Savoy, and I remember Houston after the programme, talking about Orson Welles and filmmaking, till the wee small hours in hospitality and it was quite fascinating.Alan Lawson 13:33 We were We were in that I was returned […]
