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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 […]

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

[…]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 […]

[…]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[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]hrough my brother I went and got the jobRoy Fowler: How did your brother connect with Alfred JungeMaurice Carter: He was assistant to Alfred Junge on films like xxxRoy Fowler: Although trained as an architect he was in the film industryMaurice Carter: He was a draughtsman, and the need was for / dra[…]

[…] work with him on, I think his one -but -last film when you know, he was a pathetic invalid, and […]

[…]pril 39, in London town and the sound of bow bells. So not quite a Cockney, but can you tell me a bit about your family and how you came to be in the film industry?Right. My family consisted of a father who was in the engineering business, who would started making his own films and when he was young[…]

[…] [xxxiv]Research required [xxxv]Basil Wright (1907 -1987) was a documentary filmmaker, film historian, film critic and teacher. [xxxvi]Lindsay Anderson was born in […]