[…]ter City School which is just off Victoria St.AL: After that did you do any specialised training?SC : I did nothing that prepared me for my career in filmDuring the normal course of education in secondary School I got interested in drama and with a couple of friends founded to.e school dramatic soci[…]
[…]any longer. It was hit by a flying bomb during the war. I don't think there was anything particularly of note during my school career. I always liked films. I wanted to get into films. From an early age I liked the cinema. I was interested in photography. My father was interested in photography, jus[…]
[…]l kids, you know, that kind of thing. It really wasn't a good thing. And quite honestly, the best thing that happened to me, I think, was joining the film industry. Next best thing was coming to Hampstead (laughter) which was very relaxed... About colour and religion. 03:57At school did you hav[…]
[…] camera operator, and occasionally as a cinematographer, primarily for Hammer Film Productions at Bray. SUMMARY: In this interview, Harris talks […]
[…]like to do is start right at the very beginning. We'd like to talk right through your life and your work in the world of archives and other things in film.AF: Okay.MW: But let's start at the very beginning: where abouts were you born? AF: I was born on a farm called Old Montrose four miles outs[…]
[…]onard Harris: I don't think I would have got it mind you, because I hated school and I didn't learn much. But that's really it. I wanted to be in the film business you see, I was passionately fond of films all the time, possibly it was a bit of an escapist thing at first, I expect, because of gettin[…]
Dallas Bower Side 1Alan Lawson 00:02Dallas Bower: producer, television director, television producer, sound recordist, film editor, drama producer. Dallas, when and where were you born?Dallas Bower 00:19Kensington Hall Gardens, London 1907.Alan Lawson 00:2[…]
[…]lf, introduce yourself.Howard Lanning 1:14 My name is Howard Lanning. I was born in 1932, in the East End of London, and I've been in the film industry as a Film and Sound Editor for more than 50 years.Derek Threadgall 1:35 Then we get into the meat of it.Unknown Speaker &nbs[…]
[…]a century. I know you started off in the camera department became a cameraman. And that you ended up as the producer of those specialised films 50 years is quite time, how did it all begin?John Wiles 0:43 Well, I suppose it began really with my, as a kid I had an interest in […]
[…]was Alexander corder that came to call basically and said he was he was Hungarian and the Jewish. I'd like you to write the music for this particular film. I can't remember the name of the film that film but he did a lot of films for Alexander Calder. And during that period of time from 1933 I mean […]
