[…]e things. So, starting, I guess at the beginning, you're the daughter of Michael Balcon, who is one of the founding fathers of the British film industry. And I'd like I suppose to start with him, your memories of him going, going back to your earliest recollections. Is that pos[…]
[…]de 1Colin Moffat 0:00 The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Kenneth Griffith, actor in feature films, producer and performer in television documentary programmes. Interviewer Colin Moffat 23rd of April 1990. Colin Moffat &nb[…]
[…]ack to London.SF: How old are you now, roughly?Twenty-two, twenty-three.SF: Had the cinema, the industry – not the industry – but films, impinged a great deal on you?No. I mean films had, one of my first film memories is of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, which of course c[…]
[…]aylor: You said it was simpler in those days. So you had a good start in life.Bill Cotton Jr: In terms of the industry, yes. My brother went into the film industry, he was a pilot, a mosquito pilot during the war, and he caught TB, and when he was3rdcured of that he went to Shepperton and became a a[…]
[…]e’s memories? I’ve always been immensely interested in motion pictures generically and generally and I suppose specifically in the British film industry. I was aware of it from very early age, sort of around the age of eleven I was determined to, to work in it as a profession and, mm, my […]
