[…]      Transcript edited by Alan Masson 23/08/2019 with comments in [parenthesis] CR: How did your interest in film technology begin? What sparked that interest and how did it develop?AM: Yes. At the age of about 10 I was given a classic Kodak Box Brownie camer[…]
Chili BouchierChili Bouchier (1909-1999) was a British film actress, after working as a model forHarrods, she won a Daily Mail competition to become a film star. Her films included Shooting Stars (1927), The Return of Carole Deane (1938) and Dead Lucky (1960).I: 29th of May 1996 we are at BECTU head[…]
[…]pril 39, in London town and the sound of bow bells. So not quite a Cockney, but can you tell me a bit about your family and how you came to be in the film industry?Right. My family consisted of a father who was in the engineering business, who would started making his own films and when he was young[…]
[…]e bit about your early life. But before you started your professional career in film. Where we were born into your parents. Yes quite well I was born in Lo[…]
[…]he was very talented, when she wasn’t working for Edgar Wallace, mainly in the theatre,LH: Edgar Wallace, apart from being a writer, was presumably a film director-WR: Well for some time – I was so young Les that I don’t really know – he almost took over Beaconsfield Studios, which we were living al[…]
[…]of this recording is vested in the ACTT history project we're interviewing Francis Cockburn I spell the name C O C K B U R N, who started life in the film industry as an editor became a producer and finally information officer interviewer is Margaret Thompson the date is the 16th of March 1990 side […]
[…]hrough my brother I went and got the jobRoy Fowler: How did your brother connect with Alfred JungeMaurice Carter: He was assistant to Alfred Junge on films like xxxRoy Fowler: Although trained as an architect he was in the film industryMaurice Carter: He was a draughtsman, and the need was for / dra[…]
[…]your date of birth 4 July ...Vernon Sewell: 1903.Roy Fowler: Nineteen hundred and three right, OK. We're going to concentrate mostly on the film industry, but it would be interesting to know family background to some extent, where and when you entered this life, your parentage and such lik[…]
[…] Ipswich public school. But we were taken to the cinema but rarely our parents who both was religious I had an elder sister and a younger brother for films  that they considered a suitable to see with cheddar kitten? in the jungle, things like that. Anything dramatic, romantic and so on was for[…]
[…]g a little radio and electrical shop, as a very young man...which he didn't do for long, he decided to give that up and move on. And he came into the film industry, and it was his suggestion, when I was just sixteen that he wanted to go into the film industry, and did, and I thought, "What a damn go[…]
