EXTRACT: On losing the job of a lifetime:-"I said a permanent job in films or television would be like winning the pools - any kind of a job, I’d be grateful. I suddenly got a phone call one day to see this guy called Ward Thomas, so I go traipsing down to this place beh[…]
[…]fter the other, 'till I got this big shed.Rodney Giesler: How do you mean, you opened up?Larry Allen: Well I had projectors and I was making animated films back in them days, as a boy.Rodney Giesler: Yeah, but where did you get the money to buy the projectors?Larry Allen: Well actually the projector[…]
[…]at was called "the lower floor" at Stolls. [Coughs] On the upper floor was Welsh-Pearson, who was doing things like 'Yellow Stockings', and such like films. People like...um...Dickinson...Rodney Giesler : ...DickinsonL.P. Williams : ...whose wife, Joanna McFaddyen, had been a student with me. He was[…]
[…]ssful dressmaker. And she had - amongst many of her clients - she had a lady whose husband happened to be at that time the general sales manager of a film company called British Lion Film Corporation. And Sidney Myers was looking, or somebody within British Lion was looking for some young blood, and[…]
[…]elor: He was the cameraman, he was gorgeous. And in fact the only one of that bunch who did anything afterwards, apart from me.Kay Mander: Were these films for cinema?Joy Batchelor: Yes they were, but they only had a short life and a gay one. He had very good connections, this bloke, and our film - […]
[…]nd what a sound recordist was in those days because there were only two ways of doing it – you either went into broadcasting or gramophone records or films and it was practically unknown for anybody to be interested in such a thing.I was always fascinated by sounds and that is what I wanted to do. A[…]
[…]t he had a lot of friends in the city that before he was readyUnknown Speaker  1:57  for what made you did? What made you decide to go into films. One day,Unknown Speaker  2:05  a friend,Unknown Speaker  2:08  I metUnknown Speaker  2:10  a friend andUnknown Sp[…]
[…]t Beatty: I think they did try up to a point but it was a bit of a hopeless task really.Roy Fowler: One of the most noticeable thing to me in British films at that time are the extraordinary cut glass accents which especially the women had. Real white telephone stuff. Those two shows in the West End[…]
[…]ort of in terms of family background, did your father or your mother's work or career or interests in any way lead into your own career as a wildlife filmmaker, cameraman. Doug Allan  1:07  It's interesting, my father was a very successful freelance photographer, mostly news[…]
