[…]tMike Dick  0:10  of this recording is vested in the British entertainment history project. The name of the interviewee is Rebecca O'Brien, film producer. The date was the 22nd of March, 2017, and the interviewer is Mike dick, okay, Rebecca, can you briefly tell me who you are and what you[…]
Alan Lawson  0:00  the copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Pieter de Normanville, documentary film director, interviewer, is John Taylor, recorded on the 28th of February 1991. With interjections from his wife, Sarah Erulkar side one.John Taylor  1:11 &n[…]
[…]the result was that I spent from September 1939, till early 1946. Alan Lawson  2:40  And the artillery, you have any great interest in films or cinema?Unknown Speaker  2:45  school?Robert Angel  2:46  Yes, I always was interested from an early age in the theatre an[…]
[…]and beauty in the theatre and doing the jolly things that weren't acting at work. So the war of a node that bargain and I had been very interested in films, which had been really one of the things although music was the principal here, and I'd also been very interested in films, I can remember produ[…]
[…]I'm afraid I can't remember. I believe it was pretty much of a solo effort. I mentioned moving images because further on I saw an advertisement for a film projector complete with film and battery for 12 s. and 6d so I had to save up all my pocket money which I think in those days was sixpence a week[…]
[…]ly have to go to get some silks or things for lampshades or things, or different things for the set, you know? And that was my first job in the film industry.ALAN LAWSON: So really your transport problem was partly solved then of getting to Elstree?HARRY MILLER: Not really, I still had to catc[…]
[…]ly you are right. But can I just say that to start as it were in the middle, as I think you know, he was knighted in 1947 for services to the British film industry during the war. He was also a Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olaf, Norway, which he and Charlie Frend acquired I think because o[…]
Copyright ACTT History Project, Bill Mason, film director, film producer, recorded on 4th October 1987, interviewer Alan LawsonAL: Where were you born.BM: I was born in Edgebaston, which is the snob part of Birmingham on 9th November 1915 .AL : What kind of schooling did you receive.BM: I went to on[…]
[…] off?NORMAN J. WARREN: Absolutely no. The only thing is my parents, both of them, particularly my mother, were absolutely just complete[ly] mad about films, you know, real cinema fans. My mother in particular. She would do anything to go and see the next film. She was always telling me stories about[…]
[…]stree in 1940, 41, they were all a bit astounded because this was the first genuine cockney voice they heard. Because all those kids who were in this film came from acting school. Where it seemed to me, they were deemed to have the great talent taken out of them. In other words, the way they normall[…]
