Emmanuel (Manny) Yospa

[…]eet, 145 Wardour Street, and his workshop was on the top and we used to meet on the top floor in the workshop. Underneath that floor was The Worker's Film Association, Alderman Joe Reeves, I don't know if you knew him?Charles Drazin: The name rings a bell, yes.Manny Yospa: He was actually the film d[…]

Tilly Day

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 […]

Graham Smart

[…]ebruary 1995.Graham Smart  0:41  Right, I'll just quickly read something from a book which actually is probably easier. Actually, this is a film we made for Imperial Tobacco. It was the first programme and it was 73 that one that was mediaeval that. Yes, soManny Yospa  1:01  any […]

Daphne Anstey (nee Lily)

 This material is the copyright of the ACTT History Project, Daphne Anstey widow of Edgar, editor with the National Film Board of Canada under her maiden name, Lily, interviewers JohnLegard [JL] and Gloria Sachs [GS], recorded in her home, in Hampstead Garden Suburb, 3 May 1989. Recordist Alan […]

Christopher Challis

[…]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[…]

Kitty Marshall (Hermges)

[…]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[…]

Phil Windeatt

[…]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[…]

E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]there for I suppose it was about 15 years or so and then we moved nearer London to Great Missenden, and it was from Great Missenden that I started in films. I should say that when I left school in 1929 I went into the advertising industry and I was going to be with Mather and Crowther...Roy Fowler:&[…]

A A (Tubby) Englander

[…]Did you receive any specialised training - technical college, poly?Tubby Englander: No, no way, no.Arthur Graham: What made you decide to go into the film industry?Tubby Englander: The fact that the year was 1931 and I had to get a job. I'd just left school and I wasn't going to go back to school ag[…]
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