[…]'s still the 15th June, 1988. We're still at Glebelands and we're about to talk to Ella Mallett, who has a long and distinguished connection with our film industry. I trust this isn't too un-gentlemanly to ask you, but may I ask when and where you were born?Ella Mallett : I was born in London - Engl[…]
[…]story Project - Interview No. 10[Copyright BECTU]Interview Date: 22 July 1987Interviewer: Wyn Ryder, Alan Lawson Interviewee: Reginald (Reggie) Beck, film editorSIDE 1, TAPE 1Wyn Ryder: We ought to start off with where you were born and what sort of schooling you had.Reggie Beck: I was bor[…]
[…]r was a widow by that time so I left school at sixteen.Jim Connock : And did you then have any further training, or did you have any training for the film industry, or did you...?Kitty Wood : No I didn't. I wanted to go into the film industry from the age of twelve, and I went to see Jimmy Ritchie [[…]
[…]den@btinternet.com. Alan Lawson  0:06  The copyright of this recording is vested in the back to history project. JOHN Shirley, Feature Film Editor, interviewer, Alan Lawson, with sid Wilson, recorded on the 29th of September 1993. side one? Well, first, john, when and where were you b[…]
[…] already had some photographic experience?Eric Cross: Oh yes.Arthur Graham: What kind of reaction did you get from your parents on you going into the film industry?Eric Cross: They didn't worry about it at all. My father by that time was in Canada anyway, so it was only my mother that was interested[…]
[…]angeover. And I remember waiting in great anticipation to be allowed to take a changeover which meant going from one projector to another on the same film because they were on 20 minute spools and a feature film would consist of up to five spools of film. However because the progress was so slow I l[…]
[…]with Miss Hornman’s touring company in Manchester and through Miss Eliot who taught me at school I got to know them. Milton was going to make a film about the Loch Ness monster and they wanted a very unsophisticated Scots girl. Well they couldn’t have found anything more unsophisticated than m[…]
Interview with Marion GriersonInterviewer: Margaret Thompson MT: This is Margaret Thompson interviewing Marion Grierson; documentary film director, editor reporter, literary editor and writer.these were the professions that she followed in the early years of documentary filmmaking. She later we[…]
