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[…] a bit of shorthand typing. Away. Can you remember when you started in the film industry. Well yes I can because some it was an accident really in that.&nb[…]

[…]s Hussein  7:56  Well, I was always a very imaginative child. Yes. I used even in Bombay when we were kids. Because I was full of film. I mean, we were allowed to go to the Metro cinema, which is a very glamorous thing to do. And of course, children's films, but every now and aga[…]

[…]ey Street of course, was very famous wasn’t it?That’s right, that’s right, yes, yes.Yes. And in fact the other day on television we had the Hitchcock film for the first time.Oh really.That he sort of re, reconstructed the Sidney Street siege for the last ten minutes.Ah, ha, yes.With Peter Lorre and […]

[…]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[…]

[…]ProsserTape 1, Side 1Alan Lawson: The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. David Prosser, Newsreel cameraman, later BBC film cameraman. Recorded on the 23rd of the fifth, 1989 at his home in Chandler's Ford, Interviewer Alan Lawson. Side one.[break in recording]Alan Law[…]

        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 […]

[…]hirty years!" because there was no natural progression from there. They had a Staff Photographer, Harry Wilson, and I was there simply to process his films and, at that time, we used to send out lots of stills to newspapers so that was my job to deal with that and because of Union demarcation and al[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]nd what a sound recordist was in those days because there were only two ways of doing it – you either went into broadcasting or gramophone records or films and it was practically unknown for anybody to be interested in such a thing.I was always fascinated by sounds and that is what I wanted to do. A[…]

[…]cularly speak with a Scottish accent, Linda Wood  0:54like further. Did you have any specialised training before you started working in the film industry? Donald Wilson  1:05I went to the Glasgow School of Art. And that's the only specialised training I have. Because I had I left[…]