John Shearman

[…]ker  0:06  The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project.Unknown Speaker  0:13  John Sherman, documentary film producer, filmmaker, interviewer, Alan Lawson, on the 26thUnknown Speaker  0:23  of October,Unknown Speaker  0:26  side one.U[…]

Alan Lawson

[…]raham: Was this while you were still at school.Alan Lawson: I was still at school.Arthur Graham: So it was part time. What decided you to go into the film business.Alan Lawson: My sister was on the stage, she was a ballet dancer and I think when I was due to leave school which would have been July 1[…]

Colin Flight

[…] we’ve got to ask today. So, I wonder if you could just begin by giving an overview – if I can take you back slightly – in how your early interest in film and colour photography started. Where did that spark on interest come from?CF: I started out… my first work as such was for Kodak, and there was […]

Simon Rose

[…]es. Simon rose Date of Birth second, the third 1946 work mainly in television What else do you want to know? What areas and mostly sorry, mostly as a film editor? Although not entirely.Ian Noah  0:49  And was this for documentaries orSimon Rose  0:51  Yes. Again, mostly documenta[…]

John Schlesinger

JOHN SCHLESINGER Feature film director Interviewer Norman Swallow, recorded on 30 March 1994 Copyright of the recording is vested in BECTU History Project SIDE 1, TAPE 1 Norman Swallow: Let's go back to day one, when where you born and where. John Schlesinger: I was bor[…]

Charles Wilder

[…]he bosses then were A.C. and R.C. Bromhead and the studio manager was Bernard Bromhead, and it was all in the family kind of thing, you know? And the film that was in production when I arrived there was Jack Buchanan and Betty Balfour, and I can't remember the name of the film but they were the two […]

Derek Threadgall

[…]go Derek starting at the beginning when and where were you born.SPEAKER: M8I was born in Harwich Essex on 18th November 1938 and went to see my first film. Locals in the mob. At the age of approximately five years old. That film was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.SPEAKER: F1It attracted me even at […]

Cyril Pennington-Richards

[…]tarted a radio business, which was very successful and I made a lot of money. I got a bit bored with it and I had a cousin who was making advertising films and he asked me if I'd like to join them. So I went in with them, with his two partners and him and we started in um - in fact what we did, do y[…]

Stephen Peet

[…]f school activities and interests, of which I didn't have any. [00:04:22] But and this really is how I started. Perhaps something that led up to filmmaking, rather before that, let me think when I was about 12 my sister went on a visit to Germany. She saw advertised that, that week or that day […]
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