[…] and never forgotten it. And because I couldn't get into the theatre I decided to try the people who'd made Night Mail. And I found out where the GPO Film Unit were, they were in Soho Square. So I went there and I was told they'd moved to Denham. And I got the name of the woman who was responsible f[…]
[…]ods. The Carmichaels are certainly Ian's family, and the Greenwoods are also tied up in some way with the Greenwoods that one comes up against in the film industry. We wrote on slates, and we learnt to read and all the rest - we learnt a little bit of French, and when I was seven my father was trans[…]
[…]ntial artistic abilities and she used to make the costumes when I started making my fairy tales after the war and what do you remember what the first film you saw.SPEAKER: M3I don't remember I know my parents were good cinema goers and they used to take me I remember seeing old German film I saw met[…]
Chili BouchierChili Bouchier (1909-1999) was a British film actress, after working as a model for
Harrods, she won a Daily Mail competition to become a film star. Her films included Shooting Stars (1927), The Return of Carole Deane (1938) and Dead Lucky (1960).
I: 29th of May 1996 we are at BECT[…]
[…] a Kosher butcher business in Stoke Newington. His interest in film began with the gift of a 9.5mm camera and […]
[…]and beauty in the theatre and doing the jolly things that weren't acting at work. So the war of a node that bargain and I had been very interested in films, which had been really one of the things although music was the principal here, and I'd also been very interested in films, I can remember produ[…]
24 Jun 1988The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Sidney Samuelson CBE, Entrepreneur, Chairman of Samuelson Film Service. Interviewer, Alan LawsonSide One. Q: Sidney, when and where were you born?SAMUELSON: I was born in Paddington in Warrington Crescent I […]
[…]at you’d made this choice by now?VM: I was, yes. I felt ready in myself to start earning my living and getting on with life, yes.JR: So, there was no filming at this stage – this was all theatre?VM: Yes. It was 1950, I was in London at the Haymarket Theatre. In those days, there was a wonderful thea[…]
[…]ly you are right. But can I just say that to start as it were in the middle, as I think you know, he was knighted in 1947 for services to the British film industry during the war. He was also a Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olaf, Norway, which he and Charlie Frend acquired I think because o[…]
Copyright is vested in the BECTU History ProjectFREDDIE FRANCIS, lighting cameraman, feature film director, interviewer Alan Lawson, recorded on 24 November 1993SIDE 1, TAPE 1Alan Lawson: When and where were you born?Freddie Francis: I was born in the wilds of North London, Barnesbury, north London […]
