[…]ild of British Camera Technicians (GBCT) and was awarded the MBE (Member of the British Empire) in the Queen's New Year’s Honour's List in 1996. Film titles are in bold textUnknown words have been highlighted in yellow Side 1So can you tell us where and when you were born?Yes, I was born i[…]
[…] people like, the times that I went which was in the 30s were people like Dave willis who was my personal favourite, and Will Fyffe who had gone into films of course by that time, and Harry Gordon, the Laird of Inversnecky, there was Jack Radcliffe, I can't remember all of them. The ones I remember […]
[…]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[…]
[…]cularly speak with a Scottish accent, Linda Wood 0:54like further. Did you have any specialised training before you started working in the film industry? Donald Wilson 1:05I went to the Glasgow School of Art. And that's the only specialised training I have. Because I had I left[…]
[…]t he had a lot of friends in the city that before he was readyUnknown Speaker  1:57  for what made you did? What made you decide to go into films. One day,Unknown Speaker  2:05  a friend,Unknown Speaker  2:08  I metUnknown Speaker  2:10  a friend andUnknown Sp[…]
[…]ar and surface wear, so they had to be balanced. So it was a bit of a, you know, correctly, balanced. Do you rememberRoy Fowler  35:51  the film that was involved? Oh, I don't know. No, not the film, but it may well have been Don Juan or Don Juan. I imagine Don Juan being Warner Brothers.S[…]
[…]he labs, I think it was Maxfield, I think, but we don't remember, definitely, got together with Jack Kiley one day, and we said, how fast do they run films now? And he said, Well, they taken  16 frames a second, and they reproduce them in the first run houses at about 80 or 90 feet a minut[…]
[…]m room to room. And really, the whole thing clinched itself a mutual friend, David McCallum and he used to live in the homes with a brother who was a film editor, Douglas I've only didn't meet him very much. But he was the senior fire guard. Yes. And we live next door to the deputy Fire Guard who so[…]
[…];  PW: I’m not sure how you can answer that question without conceit. It’s always an honour to be recognised for what you’ve done. From the filming point of view probably, although I’ve won a number of awards in Milan and New York and the American festivals, the one that I probably remembe[…]
[…]sAlan Lawson: How comeMonty Berman: Because I had an uncle who was in the business and I was very keen on the cinema and he got me ajob at Twickenham Film Studios as it was then with Julius HagenAlan Lawson: In what departmentMonty Berman: In the camera departmentAlan Lawson: And who was there thenM[…]
