[…]a rather than in front," she said, "all these technical things they don't interest me but they obviously do you!" [Laughs.] She said, "We're making a film called Fire Over England at Denham Studios. Would you like to come and watch it being made?" So I said, "Yes!" It was during the school holidays.[…]
[…]55. In Shepherds Bush.Unknown Speaker 0:25 AndUnknown Speaker 0:27 from from the age of about 16, I got very interested in in films, particularly the spaghetti westerns or Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns and I used to go all over London watching those trends because they were[…]
[…]cording and transcript is vested in the BECTU History Project. Bryan Langley was interviewed by Arthur Graham on 18 November 1987.1. Improvising with film stockAG: We're on the different types of film stocks. What were their differences, and what were their special requirements as far as shooting wa[…]
[…] animations as a boy by drawing directly onto pieces of film salvaged from nearby cinemas. He later relocated to Coventry […]
[…] wanted something that gave me freedom that I could find as an alternative to fashion art,which was my then passion. And I didn’t know anything about films at all, but I sort offelt that documentary films seemed to offer me something that interested me. But I didn’tknow anybody in films and I had no[…]
[…], which of course has gone now, Lime Grove at Shepherd's Bush, and I started there. And the reason I started there was because my father was having a film made there. He wrote for the cinema and theatre, and I thought it would be a good idea to go into films because you didn't need any intelligence […]
[…]fter the other, 'till I got this big shed.Rodney Giesler: How do you mean, you opened up?Larry Allen: Well I had projectors and I was making animated films back in them days, as a boy.Rodney Giesler: Yeah, but where did you get the money to buy the projectors?Larry Allen: Well actually the projector[…]
Tilly Day (continuity) 1903-1994by admin — last modified Jul 28, 2008 04:32 PMBIOGRAPHY: Tilly Day worked on over 300 British films between the 1920s and 1970s, most particularly as ‘continuity girl’. Her career began at Walthamstow Studios in the 1917 and she received her first credit in […]
[…] Auxiliary Territorial Service during WWII and subsequently returned to the film industry, working for Rank and Hammer studios among others. […]
[…]ould do. And I worked for The Beast for quite a time, it was based in Blenheim Crescent, which was 6 Notting Hill, almost exactly where the film was, the Rhys Ivans, is it Rhys Ivans?, Welsh actor, who comes out in his underpants... Notting Hill? Yeah, Notting Hill, and I think i[…]
