[…]er and Sidney ColeInterviewee: Tom PeacockTape 1, Side 1Sidney Cole: Well it's nice to meet you Tom and to ask you about what you remember about that film which we were both associated with at Denham Studios all those years ago, 1942 in fact. Would you like to tell me about your involvement in that?[…]
[…]amera mechanics were stuck in a time mold. As far as engineering was concerned, their engineering base was in the early 1900s when they moved over to film, they divorced themselves from general engineering, and they stayed with films so, so they were doing things in the 1950sUnknown Speaker  4:[…]
[…]hirty years!" because there was no natural progression from there. They had a Staff Photographer, Harry Wilson, and I was there simply to process his films and, at that time, we used to send out lots of stills to newspapers so that was my job to deal with that and because of Union demarcation and al[…]
[…]sonInterviewee: Erica MastersTape 1, Side 1Sydney Samuelson: Well we're sitting here on the 2nd August 1995. We're in the meeting room of the British Film Commission, at 70, Baker Street in London, and the interviewee is no less than Miss Erica Masters, a legendary production person in our industry,[…]
[…]he next thing i i took pictures in those days, the first job I had to do, I'll always remember I worked. We worked out in one four King Water Street, film house Water Street, just up the road. And I had to go to Marble Arch, where the Duchess of Kent no the Duchess of Gloucester. I was going to open[…]
[…] at the age of 14 and went to work.Alan Lawson: Um...What, what do you mean by work?Cyril Page: Well, when I was at school I started er...showing the films to the school on the Friday afternoon, so I could get out of doing lessons, and I had an old 9.5 Ace Projector, hand-turn, and we used to do the[…]
[…]ar and surface wear, so they had to be balanced. So it was a bit of a, you know, correctly, balanced. Do you rememberRoy Fowler  35:51  the film that was involved? Oh, I don't know. No, not the film, but it may well have been Don Juan or Don Juan. I imagine Don Juan being Warner Brothers.S[…]
[…]p;And and I think I know the answer, but does your family - prior to your own career - does your family, or has your family, had any connections with film, television, the area of work in which you've made your your life's work? Penny Woolcock  1:09  I I've had no family connection wh[…]
[…]s Hussein  7:56  Well, I was always a very imaginative child. Yes. I used even in Bombay when we were kids. Because I was full of film. I mean, we were allowed to go to the Metro cinema, which is a very glamorous thing to do. And of course, children's films, but every now and aga[…]
[…]g in The King and I, very lovely girl. Never mind. John Legard: Not Virginia McKenna ?Jean Anderson: No, because I worked with Virginia in films quite a lot.  No, Virginia McKenna also played it, so, no, can’t remember.Margaret Thomson: So at the moment, in a chronological sense, you[…]
