[…]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[…]
[…]r was a widow by that time so I left school at sixteen.Jim Connock : And did you then have any further training, or did you have any training for the film industry, or did you...?Kitty Wood : No I didn't. I wanted to go into the film industry from the age of twelve, and I went to see Jimmy Ritchie [[…]
[…] Thus, this article intervenes in debates about gender within the film industry to demonstrate how women became essential to Britain’s […]
[…]hen it was taken over by a motion picture company - I'm not at all sure whether it was Paramount or something like that. And they used to make silent films round there, and occasionally they would enlist some local people for crowd scenes, everybody would be in it from round about you see, and there[…]
[…]ry Project - Interview No. 17 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: Unknown - draft analytical transcription by Sarah Easen, British Universities Film and Video CouncilInterview Date: 1987-09-16Interviewer: Roy FowlerInterviewee: Reg SuttonSound recordist: Taffy HainesTape 1, Side 1 Roy Fow[…]
[…] Unknown - draft analytical transcription by Sarah Easen, British Universities Film and Video Council Interview Date: 1987-09-16 Interviewer: Roy Fowler […]
[…]ncle’ Mac in the family – he was never an uncle but in those days you called everybody uncle. He turned out to be David MacDonald who was a reputable film director in those days. I went down to Lime Grove studios with my dad and sat on the set. In his chair. And started work next Monday. In the scen[…]
