[…]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[…]
[…]p as it were.R. F. So you had a very long training.C. D. Then . . . . . . . . (name), he was promoting my work and so forth, I then wanted to go into films. I had an idea that I would like to do stage work, ballet, which I did.R. F. What year are we talking of?C. D. When I was 19. So it so happened […]
[…]'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[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]and she said “well well, in that case you can give up Italia Conti, you can go back to school and learn”, which I did. But I did get the odd parts in films, and it happened that when the film started, I was in 16, or shortly after then..and er…I was allowed to leave school, because I got all of the […]
[…]for Harvey Harrison; after a year, Harvey took over as cameraman in the studios so FY was left in charge of the laboratory; FY talks about processing film in the early days using frames; after a year, the studio lab was closed; he developed First Man in the Moon which he also tinted and toned; FY de[…]
Tessa Idlewine (TI) Film Preservationist (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science) Interviewers: Paul Frith (PF) & Keith Johnston (KJ) Date 08/02/2019 Conduct via SkypeLength 00:35:23 PF: OK Tessa so if you could tell me a little bit about your role at the Academy.TI:[…]
[…]and then I went to another day school, by which time I was starting to decide what I wanted to do. I’d always been in love with Clark Gable and other film stars, and I thought I wanted to be an actress and wanted to go on the stage. I don’t think so much that I was going to be a film star; I was goi[…]
