[…]ssful dressmaker. And she had - amongst many of her clients - she had a lady whose husband happened to be at that time the general sales manager of a film company called British Lion Film Corporation. And Sidney Myers was looking, or somebody within British Lion was looking for some young blood, and[…]
[…]elor: He was the cameraman, he was gorgeous. And in fact the only one of that bunch who did anything afterwards, apart from me.Kay Mander: Were these films for cinema?Joy Batchelor: Yes they were, but they only had a short life and a gay one. He had very good connections, this bloke, and our film - […]
[…]with ACT?A Through Ralph. Ralph knew Grierson and we spent any free time we had was at the cinema and Ralph had a book where he had a review of every film and he got to know Grierson even while he was working at the party headquarters.Q Was he then reviewing films for the Daily Worker or...A He[…]
[…] Goodman was born in 1927 in Walthamstow. He entered the film industry as a page boy at the Gaumont-British Studios […]
[…] credit on Scott of the Antarctic (1948). Montagu’s career in film production ran parallel to his work as and film […]
[…] side. And during the late 60s and early 70s, British film production largely through American investment was flourishing. And Samuelsons […]
[…]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[…]
[…]ated transcription service, supplied by John Harwood and edited by David Sharp in 2019. The numbers in square brackets are timecodes. [Filming began outside]Interviewer: Jimmie King. David Woodward on camera.[TAPE 1] Jimmie King [JK]: If you’d like to introduce yourself Bob.[…]
EXTRACT: On losing the job of a lifetime:-"I said a permanent job in films or television would be like winning the pools - any kind of a job, I’d be grateful. I suddenly got a phone call one day to see this guy called Ward Thomas, so I go traipsing down to this place beh[…]
[…]bsp;Darrol Blake 0:16 great. Okay, tell us a bit about the family and whether they had anything to do with the business theater film. Yeah, Kent Houston 0:21 My parents were in the film industry previous to the Second World War, and in fact, during th[…]
