[…] got into films? Bill Girdlestone: Well, I was the original film buff. I had a home cinema at about 12. […]
[…] E ric Cross (Lighting Camer aman – DOP) Career in film industry: 1926 to (circa) 1962 Credits include: Christmas Under […]
[…]t, Queenie Turner christened Alice May. Laboratory worker, neg and pos, pos , assembler, negcutter and finally librarian of The Imperial War Museum’s Film Archives.Interviewers Alan Lawson and Syd Wilson. Recorded on the twenty-seventh of April 1993. Side One.Right well first and foremost when and w[…]
[…]p as it were.R. F. So you had a very long training.C. D. Then . . . . . . . . (name), he was promoting my work and so forth, I then wanted to go into films. I had an idea that I would like to do stage work, ballet, which I did.R. F. What year are we talking of?C. D. When I was 19. So it so happened […]
[…] Mallett, who has a long and distinguished connection with our film industry. I trust this isn't too un-gentlemanly to ask […]
[…] and Leo Genn as well but that was my first film. After that. When I came Captain Boycott which was […]
[…]for Harvey Harrison; after a year, Harvey took over as cameraman in the studios so FY was left in charge of the laboratory; FY talks about processing film in the early days using frames; after a year, the studio lab was closed; he developed First Man in the Moon which he also tinted and toned; FY de[…]
[…]and then I went to another day school, by which time I was starting to decide what I wanted to do. I’d always been in love with Clark Gable and other film stars, and I thought I wanted to be an actress and wanted to go on the stage. I don’t think so much that I was going to be a film star; I was goi[…]
[…]; 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[…]
[…]with Miss Hornman’s touring company in Manchester and through Miss Eliot who taught me at school I got to know them. Milton was going to make a film about the Loch Ness monster and they wanted a very unsophisticated Scots girl. Well they couldn’t have found anything more unsophisticated than m[…]