[…]e in and that attitude of having a Union level of manning was kind of core to how ITV was at the time and, later on in my career when I started doing film work, film news, for instance, was done with a three-man crew - lighting, sound and camera operator - unless it exceeded two minutes and the two […]
[…]troduce myself my name is Nigel ArthurCL: My name is Cornel Arthur (laughs)NA: We’ve met before. I’m the curator of the stills library at the British Film Institute. Cornel you’re a world renowned stills photographer, so obviously there’s an affinity between us. I wondered if we could go right back […]
[…]?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[…]
[…]ber 1996. Side One.We’re going.Yes. Okay.Right.Right Mary, tell us about your childhood, where you were born, how you, educated and how you came into films?I was born in Cornwall in October 1919 and very shortly after that, about three months or less, went to New York with my father, mother and my e[…]
[…] on further education of any kind. So I left and went into work. And I happen to live next door to a young girl who was working at the pearl and Dean film studio in the trace and paint department. And she mentioned to me that the animation studios, were looking for a new junior runner basically to g[…]
[…] I had decided that I was going to be the greatest director since David Wark Griffith it was around that time. My mother always said “He’s film barmy” because I was always trotting off or insisting on being taken if I couldn’t get in by myself, even then I was keeping up. Kevin Brown[…]
[…]operator in engineering division. But, so I was after this I I think we had a month in London being trained. One of the people who trained me was the film director Ken Hughes. Do you remember Ken Hughes? John P. Hamilton 15:06 Oh indeed yes, yes. John Ammonds &nb[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] is Joe Langley. The interview our is Mike deke. On camera is our CO show. The interview number is 415. The date is the 28th of April 2022. And we're filming at her daughter's Claudia's home in Wimbledon.Unknown Speaker 0:23 Okay, Joe, can you tell me where when you were born? I was born[…]
