[…]like to do is start right at the very beginning. We'd like to talk right through your life and your work in the world of archives and other things in film.AF: Okay.MW: But let's start at the very beginning: where abouts were you born? AF: I was born on a farm called Old Montrose four miles outs[…]
[…]certainly in the early part of my life, affected the way I thought about things and it was really good, having two cultures, particularly in terms of film. I always, always, loved French films more than English films, or British films. Much later on I was very fortunate in working with Truffaut, on […]
[…] There was no musical event at the Hall at all.JS: Go on, I want to find out about how people get educated musically.RA: After that, I wanted to be a film director and I think it was Gaumont British offered a course for £100 where you could be an apprentice and I put this to my father and he refused[…]
[…]to have a governess from then onwards. And sometimes if you are in a theatre, in a show, you have to have lessons in the dressing room or down in the film studio. It was all quite fascinating, all thatLW: Did you appear in any films?WT: Not while I was very young, not until I was about 14. And then […]
[…]orest of Dean, in Gloucestershire. And my father was a mining engineer [pause] and 1:01 there was a colliery nearby my mother had been in early films. In fact, she played parts in early films and her name was Magarey Lorring, for those films.Norman Swallow: Is that Loring?Julia Cave: Lor[…]
[…]nbsp; 1:16  And what production was he gauging at the time, or Bobbi Riesel  1:22  he was, he wasn't making a film at the time. He had just made journey to England about a year or two years before, two years, oh, it was about that time actually weren't recordi[…]
[…]Graeme Hobbs.SIDE ONEThis recording, is vested in the ACTT [Association of Cinematograph and Television Technicians] history project. Jack Gold, film and television director, interviewers, Norman Swallow and Alan Lawson, recorded on the 27th February, 1990, side 1. NS Going to kick off Ala[…]
[…]anner: Let's say it was in the very early 20s and it was in Tilford, Surrey.Roy Fowler: You were in a family which had connections with the film or entertainment business.Peter Tanner: None, my father died when I was very young and I was the only child and my mother had to bring me up[…]
[…]in Gloucester Road in Bristol and bought myself my first camera which was an Exa 500 German Single Lens Reflex Camera and a few rolls of transparency film but the guy on the shop was very much an enthusiast and he did his own pictures, he showed me some wonderful shots obviously he’d taken and that […]
[…]a rather than in front," she said, "all these technical things they don't interest me but they obviously do you!" [Laughs.] She said, "We're making a film called Fire Over England at Denham Studios. Would you like to come and watch it being made?" So I said, "Yes!" It was during the school holidays.[…]
