[…]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[…]
[…]And I also met my husband-to-be in the lower sixth which is quite a long time ago and we have been very happy and together ever since.The interest in film started also quite early on. I'd always been interested in watching TV and watching movies and I got my first Super 8 camera when I was 16 and sh[…]
[…]or 90 seconds. He has no important role and should be well left out. And in fact, usually is left out if you're doing it commercially. You they did a film 40 years ago, and they where they got Danny Kaye to do that, and now this person wants Paul McCartney. I couldn't do that, although that's the wa[…]
[…]; JIM WHITTELL: 1922 Dinnington. 1927 the Queen’s Hall, Dover. And my father who was the by that time projectionist and film booker argued with his father about sound, because his father said it was a fad and his daughter would no longer be able to play the piano to acc[…]
[…]1926 19. And I actually did a programme once the cinema the you know, the festival did our kinda festival the British cinematographers and I ran some films there. And I found myself standing on this stage and thinking about stuff. You know, I was born almost where I'm standing now talking to people […]
[…]as. I had no intention of going on the floor, I didn’t even know what supervisorsor continuity, what it was all about.June Randall Page 21: What films were being made at that time?There was a film called Odd Man Out being made. Also, I think there was Ronnie Shinerand... the guy with […]
[…]typing. But my mother always used to say to me ‘Well what are you going to do with your life, what are you going to be’? And I said ‘I'm going in the film business’.Ah, that's what I was going to ask you, what, what prompted you to do that?Well I always loved the theatre, I suppose like every young […]
[…]with ACT?A Through Ralph. Ralph knew Grierson and we spent any free time we had was at the cinema and Ralph had a book where he had a review of every film and he got to know Grierson even while he was working at the party headquarters.Q Was he then reviewing films for the Daily Worker or...A He[…]
[…] of Humphries Laboratories, but still found time to produce a film for the Children’s Film Foundation. SUMMARY: In this interview, […]
