Yvette Vanson

This recording was transcribed by funds from the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, University of Leeds) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co- Investigator, De Montfort University). (2015).BECTU History ProjectInterview […]

Michael (Mickey) Hickey

[…]nds a week. And for about two or three weeks, or a month, they would take this money off you and they'd teach you what they could as regards making a film up and joining the two reels together, and making joins. Because you didn't have the automatic joins in those days, everything had to be done wit[…]

John Ammonds

[…]operator in engineering division. But, so I was after this I I think we had a month in London being trained. One of the people who trained me was the film director Ken Hughes. Do you remember Ken Hughes? John P. Hamilton  15:06  Oh indeed yes, yes. John Ammonds &nb[…]

Charles Bennett

[…]en I gave up everything and became an actor. And that was it...Arnold Schwartzman : Oh, sorry, I must ask a question! What made you decide to go into film?Charles Bennett : I didn't decide to go into film. It sort of happened. Actually, I started professionally in the theatre, I suppose when I was e[…]

Karel Reisz

Alan Lawson:00.00The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project,  Karel Reisz, film director.Interviewer Norman Swallow, recorded 17 April 1991 SIDE 1, Norman Swallow:0.23  Where and […]

Robert Scott

[…]ous. The University's audio visual unit was very supportive of Unit Sixty Five and let us use their studio at lunchtimes and also let us borrow their film camera from time to time. Jim Harold, who was the head of the audio visual unit let us borrow an Arri  ST and my friend and I at university […]

Cornel Lucas

[…]troduce myself my name is Nigel ArthurCL: My name is Cornel Arthur (laughs)NA: We’ve met before. I’m the curator of the stills library at the British Film Institute. Cornel you’re a world renowned stills photographer, so obviously there’s an affinity between us. I wondered if we could go right back […]
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