[…]chool, and having received my education there and then done quite a lot of photography, I then started on the first steps towards anything to do with films. In other words, I went to what was then known as boat court, the what was then the London College of photo engraving and lithography in Fleet S[…]
[…]f school activities and interests, of which I didn't have any. [00:04:22] But and this really is how I started. Perhaps something that led up to filmmaking, rather before that, let me think when I was about 12 my sister went on a visit to Germany. She saw advertised that, that week or that day […]
[…]ation: 01:32:04 & 00:31:04 (02:03:08)[00:00:00]The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Kitty Marshall, documentary film producer. Interview, Gloria Sachs. Recorded on the first of February, 1988, side one.Although it’s considered to be impolite to ask a lady her ag[…]
[…]raham: Was this while you were still at school.Alan Lawson: I was still at school.Arthur Graham: So it was part time. What decided you to go into the film business.Alan Lawson: My sister was on the stage, she was a ballet dancer and I think when I was due to leave school which would have been July 1[…]
[…] was part time. What decided you to go into the film business. Alan Lawson: My sister was on the stage, […]
[…]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 […]
[…]ly have to go to get some silks or things for lampshades or things, or different things for the set, you know? And that was my first job in the film industry.ALAN LAWSON: So really your transport problem was partly solved then of getting to Elstree?HARRY MILLER: Not really, I still had to catc[…]
[…] Jul 27, 2008 02:54 PM BIOGRAPHY: Manny Yospa entered the film industry as a teenager through his connection with the […]
[…] of the company? Cyril Pennington-Richards: It was Industrial and General Film Laboratories, and another company called British Empire Films. We bought […]
[…]he bosses then were A.C. and R.C. Bromhead and the studio manager was Bernard Bromhead, and it was all in the family kind of thing, you know? And the film that was in production when I arrived there was Jack Buchanan and Betty Balfour, and I can't remember the name of the film but they were the two […]
