Norman Fisher

[…]History Project - Interview No. 101[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: Unknown - draft analytical transcription by Sarah Easen, British Universities Film and Video CouncilInterview Date: 1989-09-25Interviewer: Roy FowlerInterviewee: Norman FisherTape 1, Side 1Roy Fowler: Copyright of the following […]

Stanley Watkins

[…]he labs, I think it was Maxfield, I think, but we don't remember, definitely, got together with Jack Kiley one day, and we said, how fast do they run films now? And he said, Well, they taken  16 frames a second, and they reproduce them in the first run houses at about 80 or 90 feet a minut[…]

Ronald Seeth

[…]as decanted up to Queen Margaret Drive and I stayed there for six years but the one thing about that job, even though I was surrounded by cameras and films, they did cater for the amateur and they also catered for the semi-professional. I remember in the window we had Bolex 16mm cameras and Arriflex[…]

Harold Myers

[…]net.comSpeaker 1  0:03  The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History ProjectUnknown Speaker  0:10  Harold Myers, film journalist, correspondent for variety, interviewed by Sid CO on the 23rd of July, 1989 at his home in rotting Dean side one.Sid Cole  0:35 &[…]

Alf Cooper

[…]the side of a roll of stock.. [Laughter][Laughter]On nitrate in those days. [Laughter]Yes.And the funny part about it is I’d never experienced a film fire until I got to Technicolor.[Laughter]Yes.That’s the strange part. But, mm, it was nothing for someone shout out ‘a bin’s alight’.[Laughter]1[…]

Philip Leacock

[…]?Philip Leacock: Bedales.Stephen Peet: So, did you do, then, at school, any specialised training, or - put it this way, why did you decide to go into films? Was it at somebody's suggestion, or somebody you met?Philip Leacock: Um, It really started possibly because they had a very nice darkroom at th[…]

Bill Girdlestone

[…] I started work in the' office of the Automobile Association in St James's Street as an office boy.Fowler/Lawson: Oh, well how come you got into films?Bill Girdlestone: Well, I was the original film buff. I had a home cinema at about 12. A local sweet shop started to sell film, six feet a […]

Peter Williams

[…];  PW: I’m not sure how you can answer that question without conceit. It’s always an honour to be recognised for what you’ve done. From the filming point of view probably, although I’ve won a number of awards in Milan and New York and the American festivals, the one that I probably remembe[…]

Evangeline Harrison

[…]nd then my ex-husband was doing If…, was it If…? No not If…, A Suitable Case for Treatment.CR: MorganEH: Morgan, yeah that’s right. And at the end of film party, Jocelyn Rickards was there and I’d heard about Jocelyn and I thought she sounded wonderful, and I had for a bit worked as Art Director on […]
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