[…] 28, 2008 04:21 PM BIOGRAPHY: One of Britain’s few female film directors, Muriel Box entered the British film industry working […]
[…] do fibrous plaster work at night school, he entered the film industry as a plasterer in the late 1930s. SUMMARY: […]
[…]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[…]
Tilly Day (continuity) 1903-1994by admin — last modified Jul 28, 2008 04:32 PMBIOGRAPHY: Tilly Day worked on over 300 British films between the 1920s and 1970s, most particularly as ‘continuity girl’. Her career began at Walthamstow Studios in the 1917 and she received her first credit in […]
[…] Auxiliary Territorial Service during WWII and subsequently returned to the film industry, working for Rank and Hammer studios among others. […]
[…]cording and transcript is vested in the BECTU History Project. Bryan Langley was interviewed by Arthur Graham on 18 November 1987.1. Improvising with film stockAG: We're on the different types of film stocks. What were their differences, and what were their special requirements as far as shooting wa[…]
[…];out of the airforce, a much decorated airman, and I was the join and we'd sit there and join film and it bored me to death. I also did a little bit in the sound department, that also bored me to death, a[…]
[…] clear that this area offers especially productive territory for feminist film history and production studies to explore, with their shared […]
[…]ould do. And I worked for The Beast for quite a time, it was based in Blenheim Crescent, which was 6 Notting Hill, almost exactly where the film was, the Rhys Ivans, is it Rhys Ivans?, Welsh actor, who comes out in his underpants... Notting Hill? Yeah, Notting Hill, and I think i[…]
[…]ou because we've both (Alan and I) read that fascinating autobiography of yours, so I won't ask you very much about the early days before you were in films, but you were born in 1905, which makes you a bit older than me, but did your family have any connection with the entertainment business?Muriel […]