Lew Grade

[…]apper : Separate, yes.Lew Grade : But we kept the name ITC. And I made numerous movies. Some not so successful... but I was very proud of some of the films that I made, I mean 'Capricorn One', 'The Eagle Has Landed'... Then I made 'On Golden Pond' which was a huge success...Alan Sapper : Great film,[…]

Alice (Queenie) Turner

[…]t, Queenie Turner christened Alice May. Laboratory worker, neg and pos, pos , assembler, negcutter and finally librarian of The Imperial War Museum’s Film Archives.Interviewers Alan Lawson and Syd Wilson. Recorded on the twenty-seventh of April 1993. Side One.Right well first and foremost when and w[…]

Sheelagh Rees

Sheelagh Reece DRAFT. Tape 1 Side AThis recording was transcribed by funds from the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, University of Leeds) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University). (201[…]

Alf Cooper

[…]the side of a roll of stock.. [Laughter][Laughter]On nitrate in those days. [Laughter]Yes.And the funny part about it is I’d never experienced a film fire until I got to Technicolor.[Laughter]Yes.That’s the strange part. But, mm, it was nothing for someone shout out ‘a bin’s alight’.[Laughter]1[…]

HP0249 Sheelagh Rees – Transcript

Sheelagh Reece DRAFT. Tape 1 Side A 1 This%recording%was%transcribed%by%funds%from%the%AHRC9funded%‘History%of%Women%in%British% Film%and%Television%project,%193391989’,%led%by%Dr%Melanie%Bell%(Principal%Investigator,%University%of%Leeds)%and%Dr%Vicky%Ball%(Co9Investigator,%De%Montfort%University).%(2015).% BECTU History Project Interview no: 249 Interviewee: Sheelagh Rees Interviewer: […]

Roy Lockett

[…]early, and it’s quite an interesting contrast just to dwell on for a moment. Left to themselves or without kind of political interventions most other film unions in the world have developed a guild structure because the only allegiance people feel, really feel, yes? is to the people who do the same […]

Monty Berman

[…]sAlan Lawson: How comeMonty Berman: Because I had an uncle who was in the business and I was very keen on the cinema and he got me ajob at Twickenham Film Studios as it was then with Julius HagenAlan Lawson: In what departmentMonty Berman: In the camera departmentAlan Lawson: And who was there thenM[…]

Rosamund John (Silkin)

[…]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[…]
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