[…] 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[…]
[…]as they come along, Stan and come along. And after they went to the Savoy, and I remember Houston after the programme, talking about Orson Welles and filmmaking, till the wee small hours in hospitality and it was quite fascinating.Alan Lawson 13:33 We were We were in that I was returned […]
[…] the rebuilding of Plymouth, Jill Craigie was a committed documentary film-maker and socialist throughout her career. Having worked as a […]
[…] down the drain later and is now up the drain.DARROL BLAKE: Did you have any ambitions when you were a young girl? Did you always want to go into the film business?RENÉE GLYNNE: Entertainment business, behind stage. I really wanted to be, probably, in the wardrobe of theatre or an ASM [Assistant Sta[…]
[…]father's thinking was you better go to Britain because that's where you'll learn the trade rather than stand South Africa which of course had no real film industry. Well Harry what was working there at the time.SPEAKER: M6He was doing the sequel to the film he had done about a lion family. So I came[…]
[…]where?Anthony Mendleson : Where?Linda Wood : Ah hmm.Anthony Mendleson : London.Linda Wood : London, yes. Did your family have any connection with the film industry or...?Anthony Mendleson : No not at all.Linda Wood : Not at all...?Anthony Mendleson : Ah hmm.Linda Wood : And, did you go to the cinema[…]
[…]ProsserTape 1, Side 1Alan Lawson: The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. David Prosser, Newsreel cameraman, later BBC film cameraman. Recorded on the 23rd of the fifth, 1989 at his home in Chandler's Ford, Interviewer Alan Lawson. Side one.[break in recording]Alan Law[…]
[…] London, yes. Did your family have any connection with the film industry or...? Anthony Mendleson : No not at all. […]
[…]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[…]
[…] a minimum for that reason, thinking that the that nine and the guns pointing East was it was all they needed. In actual when I, when I went there to film it, it did look, it did look very impressive. I mean, these enormous underground systems, where they compete with whether sort of underground rai[…]
