Copyright ACTT History Project, Bill Mason, film director, film producer, recorded on 4th October 1987, interviewer Alan LawsonAL: Where were you born.BM: I was born in Edgebaston, which is the snob part of Birmingham on 9th November 1915 .AL : What kind of schooling did you receive.BM: I went to on[…]
[…] had the greatest good luck to hit upon Gaumont-British Instructional, who at that time, were making a great number of natural history and zoological films under the guidance of Julian Huxley, and Professor Hewer of Imperial College. Those were the days of Mary Field's Secrets of Life and Secrets of[…]
[…]he was very talented, when she wasn’t working for Edgar Wallace, mainly in the theatre,LH: Edgar Wallace, apart from being a writer, was presumably a film director-WR: Well for some time – I was so young Les that I don’t really know – he almost took over Beaconsfield Studios, which we were living al[…]
[…]to have a governess from then onwards. And sometimes if you are in a theatre, in a show, you have to have lessons in the dressing room or down in the film studio. It was all quite fascinating, all thatLW: Did you appear in any films?WT: Not while I was very young, not until I was about 14. And then […]
[…]father's thinking was you better go to Britain because that's where you'll learn the trade rather than stand South Africa which of course had no real film industry. Well Harry what was working there at the time.SPEAKER: M6He was doing the sequel to the film he had done about a lion family. So I came[…]
[…] 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 […]
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[…] a long time before I mean recognizing people in the film has made them an idea that was just as […]
