[…]an do this day, I could remember the excitement of going through the plush curtains into this dark and rather warm, sweaty sort of auditorium and the film was on the screen. And lo and behold, I saw it moved. I didn't know how or what. But I was hooked from that moment onwards. I, when I got a littl[…]
[…]an do this day, I could remember the excitement of going through the plush curtains into this dark and rather warm, sweaty sort of auditorium and the film was on the screen. And lo and behold, I saw it moved. I didn't know how or what. But I was hooked from that moment onwards. I, when I got a littl[…]
[…]hat recruited Anne Fleming [BEHP Interview No 698] to the Imperial War Museum.She and I responded to the same advertisement. There was one job in the Film Department, which is the one that Anne got, and the second job in what was then termed the Department of Information Retrieval, but specifically […]
[…]or two years. And then fair of my second honour, mercifully, I went to art school. And that was really the beginning I think of of what brought me to film. Many questionsUnknown Speaker  3:54  as an actress,Paddy Carey  3:55  my mother was an actress and I think we joined her in […]
24 Jun 1988The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Sidney Samuelson CBE, Entrepreneur, Chairman of Samuelson Film Service. Interviewer, Alan LawsonSide One.  Q: Sidney, when and where were you born?SAMUELSON: I was born in Paddington in Warrington Crescent I […]
[…]the navy, and eventually I went to a naval college at Pangbourne with the idea of going on from there. By the way, during my first term there I saw a film that had been made by a pupil who had left the previous term called Ken Russell. So I just missed being a contemporary of his. I was a contempora[…]
The copyright of this interview is vested in the BECTU History Project. LindsayAnderson, film director, theatre producer, interviewer Norman Swallow, recorded on 18 April, 1991SIDE 1Norman Swallow: First of all, when and where were you born?Lindsay Anderson: I was born on April 17th, 1923 in Bangalo[…]
[…]the earliest time that I remember him, he was head Brewer at Meux's Brewery Limited in in London, which was practically on the site where the British Film Institute later was in in the corner of great Russell Street. And I think this site was sold  way back in the 20s. The Dominion Cinema, for […]
[…]of September 1993, to Boscastle. Joe to begin with, can you can you tell me when you were born? Yes, I'll go on to describe how you came to be in the film industry.Joe Mendoza  0:22   So I was born 921 in southeast London.event, what date 29th of January, when the query and my family […]
[…] and never forgotten it. And because I couldn't get into the theatre I decided to try the people who'd made Night Mail. And I found out where the GPO Film Unit were, they were in Soho Square. So I went there and I was told they'd moved to Denham. And I got the name of the woman who was responsible f[…]
