[…]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 - […]
[…] Goodman was born in 1927 in Walthamstow. He entered the film industry as a page boy at the Gaumont-British Studios […]
[…] for somebody to fill her job which was in their library. Library in the sense that they owned books and periodicals, it was nothing to do with film or anything but it was working for Associated-Rediffusion. So, because I wasn’t very happy there I went for an interview and lo and behold […]
[…]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 […]
[…] 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[…]
[…]hirty years!" because there was no natural progression from there. They had a Staff Photographer, Harry Wilson, and I was there simply to process his films and, at that time, we used to send out lots of stills to newspapers so that was my job to deal with that and because of Union demarcation and al[…]
[…]amlet in in Suffolk called Somerton, and That's basically where I've had my early years, I went to the local schools and where I first had a piece of film in my hand, piece of 9.5 film of Alan bes army, and with a hand cranked 9.5 projector. I was there for the rest, rest of my younger life, and eve[…]
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 […]
Yvonne Littlewood DRAFT. Tape 1 Side AThis 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). ([…]
