[…]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[…]
[…] we’ve got to ask today. So, I wonder if you could just begin by giving an overview – if I can take you back slightly – in how your early interest in film and colour photography started. Where did that spark on interest come from?CF: I started out… my first work as such was for Kodak, and there was […]
[…] he got a job as head of sound at Rank Film Laboratories. In 1980 he became involv ed with the British […]
Alan Lawson 0:00 the copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Pieter de Normanville, documentary film director, interviewer, is John Taylor, recorded on the 28th of February 1991. With interjections from his wife, Sarah Erulkar side one.John Taylor 1:11 &n[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]e bit about your early life. But before you started your professional career in film. Where we were born into your parents. Yes quite well I was born in Lo[…]
[…]I'm afraid I can't remember. I believe it was pretty much of a solo effort. I mentioned moving images because further on I saw an advertisement for a film projector complete with film and battery for 12 s. and 6d so I had to save up all my pocket money which I think in those days was sixpence a week[…]
[…] She would do anything to go and see the next film. She was always telling me stories about how when […]
[…]the result was that I spent from September 1939, till early 1946. Alan Lawson 2:40 And the artillery, you have any great interest in films or cinema?Unknown Speaker 2:45 school?Robert Angel 2:46 Yes, I always was interested from an early age in the theatre an[…]
[…] off?NORMAN J. WARREN: Absolutely no. The only thing is my parents, both of them, particularly my mother, were absolutely just complete[ly] mad about films, you know, real cinema fans. My mother in particular. She would do anything to go and see the next film. She was always telling me stories about[…]
