[…]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[…]
[…]'ve got one award for for services to television over the years for the Royal Television Society. And I've got an award for special photography for a film called The Black Velvet gun from the beffta. Northeast. Wow.Unknown Speaker  1:05  What about honours?Unknown Speaker  1:07  […]
[…]1926 19. And I actually did a programme once the cinema the you know, the festival did our kinda festival the British cinematographers and I ran some films there. And I found myself standing on this stage and thinking about stuff. You know, I was born almost where I'm standing now talking to people […]
[…]d in Margate until the war; as a child DW would got to the cinema every week; very little of his early life had anything to do with his career in the film industry, when he left the army in 1947 he knew he didn’t want to work in an office; Southern Rail had a small film unit for training under Water[…]
[…]a century. I know  you started off in the camera department became a cameraman. And that you ended up as the producer of those specialised  films 50 years is quite time, how did it all begin?John Wiles  0:43  Well, I suppose it began really with my, as a kid I had an interest in […]
[…];  JIM WHITTELL: 1922 Dinnington. 1927 the Queen’s Hall, Dover. And my father who was the by that time projectionist and film booker argued with his father about sound, because his father said it was a fad and his daughter would no longer be able to play the piano to acc[…]
Side 1 Ralph Bond  0:00  This is a tape recording with three ACTT members who have spent all or most of their working life in film laboratories. We have Bert Craik, Sam Williams, and Alf Cooper. And we're going to discuss the many, many changes that have taken place both in technical […]
Side 1Ralph Bond  0:00  This is a tape recording with three ACTT members who have spent all or most of their working life in film laboratories. We have Bert Craik, Sam Williams, and Alf Cooper. And we're going to discuss the many, many changes that have taken place both in technical condit[…]
[…]I did, and my anticipating cover, as a maintenance engineer member for a number of years, I was employed here, and also our maintenance engineers and film studios, and in the film business generally, are, as it were working as individuals. And it was not for many, many, many years later that I was i[…]
[…]with ACT?A Through Ralph. Ralph knew Grierson and we spent any free time we had was at the cinema and Ralph had a book where he had a review of every film and he got to know Grierson even while he was working at the party headquarters.Q Was he then reviewing films for the Daily Worker or...A He[…]
