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[…] got into films? Bill Girdlestone: Well, I was the original film buff. I had a home cinema at about 12. […]

[…]e head master said, you know, "Oh, you'll presumably go into a bank or something like that." So, I hadn't a clue what to do but I had an uncle in the film business and he said he could get me a job. And so I told this head master that I was going into the film business and he was absolutely astounde[…]

[…]nd down all hours of the night. But I saw an advert in the Daily Telegraph saying that the right organisation we're going to get into the business of filmmaking how they wanted production accountants with a budgetary knowledge well I'd done about four years with the with the Lucas grew up in Burnley[…]

[…] they'd teach you what they could as regards making a film up and joining the two reels together, and making […]

[…] they'd teach you what they could as regards making a film up and joining the two reels together, and making […]

[…] MORRIS well known only that I mean you know the film was very good. You made a tremendous amount of […]

[…]nds a week. And for about two or three weeks, or a month, they would take this money off you and they'd teach you what they could as regards making a film up and joining the two reels together, and making joins. Because you didn't have the automatic joins in those days, everything had to be done wit[…]

[…]de there.Was there?Y es.Ah, well my memory’s doing alright in that case. And he was tremendous friends with, with Hepworth and he made a whole lot of films over here. Mm, I don’t know how many but of course, they were short films in those days little, little tiny ones, you know. But he had an actor […]

[…];And I had two older sisters, and a younger brother. So I had plenty of people around with me. And nobody had any sort of influence for me to go into films, or theatre or anything. I hadn't got a particular desire to go to theatre.  I wanted to film because I could see that you were able t[…]

BECTU History Project - Interview No. 110  [Copyright BECTU]Maurice Elvey (film director) 11/11/1887 – 28/8/1967 by admin — last modified Jul 28, 2008 04:49 PMTranscription Date: [? Pilot Project]  -  Interview Date: 1963-10-01  -  Interviewer: Ralph Bond[…]