[…]orest of Dean, in Gloucestershire. And my father was a mining engineer [pause] and 1:01 there was a colliery nearby my mother had been in early films. In fact, she played parts in early films and her name was Magarey Lorring, for those films.Norman Swallow: Is that Loring?Julia Cave: Lor[…]
[…] had the greatest good luck to hit upon Gaumont-British Instructional, who at that time, were making a great number of natural history and zoological films under the guidance of Julian Huxley, and Professor Hewer of Imperial College. Those were the days of Mary Field's Secrets of Life and Secrets of[…]
[…] The First of the Few (1942) before joining the Crown Film Unit, where she worked on designs for films such […]
[…]in Gloucester Road in Bristol and bought myself my first camera which was an Exa 500 German Single Lens Reflex Camera and a few rolls of transparency film but the guy on the shop was very much an enthusiast and he did his own pictures, he showed me some wonderful shots obviously he’d taken and that […]
[…] Transcript edited by Alan Masson 23/08/2019 with comments in [parenthesis] CR: How did your interest in film technology begin? What sparked that interest and how did it develop?AM: Yes. At the age of about 10 I was given a classic Kodak Box Brownie camer[…]
[…]eet, 145 Wardour Street, and his workshop was on the top and we used to meet on the top floor in the workshop. Underneath that floor was The Worker's Film Association, Alderman Joe Reeves, I don't know if you knew him?Charles Drazin: The name rings a bell, yes.Manny Yospa: He was actually the film d[…]
[…]hrough my brother I went and got the jobRoy Fowler: How did your brother connect with Alfred JungeMaurice Carter: He was assistant to Alfred Junge on films like xxxRoy Fowler: Although trained as an architect he was in the film industryMaurice Carter: He was a draughtsman, and the need was for / dra[…]
Vernon Sewell ( film director) 4/7/1903-21/6/2001 by admin — last modified Aug 12, 2008 02:08 PM BIOGRAPHY: Vernon Sewell began […]
[…] Aug 12, 2008 12:43 PM BIOGRAPHY: Cyril Pennington-Richards entered the film industry in 1932, working on short advertising films before […]
[…]certainly in the early part of my life, affected the way I thought about things and it was really good, having two cultures, particularly in terms of film. I always, always, loved French films more than English films, or British films. Much later on I was very fortunate in working with Truffaut, on […]
