[…] My mum and dad weren’t tearful we couldn't wait to get away.6:17 NS: It's not only - it's not only today's television, is it? I mean, it’s the films of the time, Alan will remember this, they we're also a bit tearful. And they were shown during the war.6:27 DMW: Yes, but today’s documen[…]
[…]e did better work. But if you've got the example that went quicker to the, to the IRB, and so therefore, I started going to cinema as I used to go to films twice a week, twice a day, every week. So if Sunday's were three times a day, and that was ready, I got so that was the beginning. That was how […]
[…]ild of British Camera Technicians (GBCT) and was awarded the MBE (Member of the British Empire) in the Queen's New Year’s Honour's List in 1996. Film titles are in bold textUnknown words have been highlighted in yellow Side 1So can you tell us where and when you were born?Yes, I was born i[…]
[…]typing. But my mother always used to say to me ‘Well what are you going to do with your life, what are you going to be’? And I said ‘I'm going in the film business’.Ah, that's what I was going to ask you, what, what prompted you to do that?Well I always loved the theatre, I suppose like every young […]
[…]And I also met my husband-to-be in the lower sixth which is quite a long time ago and we have been very happy and together ever since.The interest in film started also quite early on. I'd always been interested in watching TV and watching movies and I got my first Super 8 camera when I was 16 and sh[…]
[…] I had decided that I was going to be the greatest director since David Wark Griffith it was around that time. My mother always said “He’s film barmy” because I was always trotting off or insisting on being taken if I couldn’t get in by myself, even then I was keeping up. Kevin Brown[…]
[…] there and enthusiastic. He then went out to Hollywood and became a great lighting designer in Hollywood.Roy Fowler: Yes, he directed one or two films out there, didn't he?Joan Kemp-Welch: Yes and he died, oh, I suppose about twenty years ago, didn't he?Roy Fowler: I can't remember wh[…]
[…]ery anxious for me to get into the firm. And I was anxious to get into motion pictures! My eldest sister had written quite a few original stories for films. At that time the principal film industry was not in Hollywood, but in New Jersey, across the River, the Hudson River, from Manhattan, from New […]
[…]yes, 2 years foundation and 2 years intermediate and then you get your NDD so it's a 4 years course. 0:04:29.9 MIKE: So how did you get into the film and television industry? 0:04:32.0 JOY: Well, I didn't want to be directed to education and teachers because that's what they used to do... […]
[…]unning the operational side of Movietone until the War. He was a first class aerialphotographer, having been in the RAF as a Pilot. He specialised in film work from the air and heassigned himself to the flying jobs.Q Can you tell me his name?A Jack. When the war came he became a correspondent - war […]
