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[…] In 1910 he went to workas an apprentice at a film studio in Walthamstowe, a glass studio, I believe it […]

David Robson

[…] they obviously do you!" [Laughs.] She said, "We're making a film called Fire Over England at Denham Studios. Would you […]

David Robson

[…]a rather than in front," she said, "all these technical things they don't interest me but they obviously do you!" [Laughs.] She said, "We're making a film called Fire Over England at Denham Studios. Would you like to come and watch it being made?" So I said, "Yes!" It was during the school holidays.[…]

A A (Tubby) Englander

[…]Did you receive any specialised training - technical college, poly?Tubby Englander: No, no way, no.Arthur Graham: What made you decide to go into the film industry?Tubby Englander: The fact that the year was 1931 and I had to get a job. I'd just left school and I wasn't going to go back to school ag[…]

Larry Allen

[…] animations as a boy by drawing directly onto pieces of film salvaged from nearby cinemas. He later relocated to Coventry […]

Edward Dryhurst

[…]ddie Dryhurst: Yeah.Roy Fowler: Your family background, as I say, is documented, so why don't we start out with your first initial urgings to go into film and what films were like at that particular time, what made you feel that way about them?Eddie Dryhurst: Well we're going back to the First World[…]

Larry Allen

[…]fter the other, 'till I got this big shed.Rodney Giesler: How do you mean, you opened up?Larry Allen: Well I had projectors and I was making animated films back in them days, as a boy.Rodney Giesler: Yeah, but where did you get the money to buy the projectors?Larry Allen: Well actually the projector[…]

Peter Sargent

[…], which of course has gone now, Lime Grove at Shepherd's Bush, and I started there. And the reason I started there was because my father was having a film made there. He wrote for the cinema and theatre, and I thought it would be a good idea to go into films because you didn't need any intelligence […]

Aida Young (nee Cohen)

 Interview with Aida Young The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Aida Young, film and TV series producer. Interviewer Teddy Darvas.                       Recorded on the 29th September 1[…]

Ann Turner

[…]as they come along, Stan and come along. And after they went to the Savoy, and I remember Houston after the programme, talking about Orson Welles and filmmaking, till the wee small hours in hospitality and it was quite fascinating.Alan Lawson  13:33  We were We were in that I was returned […]
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