Search Results for: Film Historian

[…] for somebody to fill her job which was in their library.  Library in the sense that they owned books and periodicals, it was nothing to do with film or anything but it was working for Associated-Rediffusion.  So, because I wasn’t very happy there I went for an interview and lo and behold […]

[…]nd what a sound recordist was in those days because there were only two ways of doing it – you either went into broadcasting or gramophone records or films and it was practically unknown for anybody to be interested in such a thing.I was always fascinated by sounds and that is what I wanted to do. A[…]

[…] this is an interview by Katy McGahan, one of the curators in the Non-Fiction unit at the BFI interviewing for the BECTU History Project, Mary Orrom, filmmaker, editor and director. And it's 25th of January 2011.  Katy McGahan  0:30  OK  Mary Orrom, many thank[…]

[…]chool. Of which the most famous old boy was William Friese Green. So I was off to a good start. Then inference is correct.BG Where did you first love filmsCY My dad he used to take us through the pictures and when he got home he'd have mini quizzes I think know little puzzles and quiz questions base[…]

[…]t school. It was then a very, very, mixed school, socially very, very, mixed; went to read history as an undergraduate at Cambridge, and then studied film, as a postgraduate at Bristol, and was very keen to try and find a way to bring these two great interest of mine, film and history together, and […]

[…] I had decided that I was going to be the greatest director since David Wark Griffith it was around that time.  My mother always said “He’s film barmy” because I was always trotting off or insisting on being taken if I couldn’t get in by myself, even then I was keeping up. Kevin Brown[…]