Robert Scott

[…]ous. The University's audio visual unit was very supportive of Unit Sixty Five and let us use their studio at lunchtimes and also let us borrow their film camera from time to time. Jim Harold, who was the head of the audio visual unit let us borrow an Arri  ST and my friend and I at university […]

Tony Lawson

Tony Lawson Side 1 Linda Wood  0:00  Tony Lawson, film editor, being interviewed by Linda Wood on the fifth of December. 2000 tape interview for can you say where you were born? Tony Lawson  0:16  Yes, I was born in London, in Paddington. My mother w[…]

Gerry Humphreys

[…]ight of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project.  Gerry Humphries, sound recordist, dubbing mixer, managing director of Twickenham Film Studios.  Interviewer Alan Lawson.  Recorded on the 21st August 1995.  Side one.Now, first Gerry when and where were you born?GH 1[…]

John Turner

[…] what to do but I had an uncle in the film business and he said he could get me a […]

Taylor Downing

[…]t school. It was then a very, very, mixed school, socially very, very, mixed; went to read history as an undergraduate at Cambridge, and then studied film, as a postgraduate at Bristol, and was very keen to try and find a way to bring these two great interest of mine, film and history together, and […]

John Halas

[…]There is some license for exaggeration. DS 2021. The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project.John Halas, animator and film producer, interviewer is Bob Godfrey, the interview was recorded on the 18th July 1990 Side one Bob Godfrey: you once told me you were […]

Jack Hildyard

[…]t he had a lot of friends in the city that before he was readyUnknown Speaker  1:57  for what made you did? What made you decide to go into films. One day,Unknown Speaker  2:05  a friend,Unknown Speaker  2:08  I metUnknown Speaker  2:10  a friend andUnknown Sp[…]

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 […]
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