Albert Critoph

[…]the projector. He said, what you do? You hand turn it slightly so you've got no movement on the sprocket, and you put the frame in front of the pitch gate properly as such, and close it up. And he told me that. So he must have been a brainy chap, but it was a chap that  repaired push bikes. So […]

Derek Threadgall

[…]the lacing up everything so you laced up. The first machine had that going. Then you light up a second machine making sure that everything was at the gate the right. What was it number seven of a number rising on the leader within the gate. And then you check everything through. I know it might. My […]

Harry Miller

[…]k was that?HARRY MILLER: Well my father who originally belonged to the family firm of Miller Heinz and Beachenor, shipwrights and shipbuilders at Ramsgate and they, they were big in this thing that describes it this book thing.  He didn’t go in for the family business and, after certain things […]

Cedric Dawe

[…]ted to do, and design and so forth and they were in a terrible state. This was before the ACTT Union and there was a long queue outside the workman's gate 24 hours a day. Everybody was working night and day, literally to try get anything out on the screen and it was absolute chaos.R. F. Do you remem[…]

Jimmy Wright

[…]sp;uh to the technician to uh to rest on the knife edge. Behind the Camera gate the gate because of course there were two two camera Gates does this restri[…]

Fred Tomlin

[…]is um...?Fred Tomlin: Now this was the - every year at Islington they used to have an outing and everybody went to this outing, so we'd go down to Margate or somewhere like that. I've got an idea that this time we went down to Windsor and onto a boat or something like that. But everybody turned up. […]

James Arthur Clark

[…]ated it the first screening of honky tonk freeway was a complete nightmare. Not one laugh not one.SPEAKER: M5And John at the end was reviled and castigated and given the most terrible talking to by the heads of Universal who had taken it over they'd taken over this movie they hadn't seen it. We unve[…]

Joan Kemp-Welch

[…]who remembers that time, it was a famous, famous theatre, little theatre. And he was just about to branch out into another theatre, it was called The Gate...Roy Fowler: What, in Notting Hill?Joan Kemp-Welch: Yeah and this theatre was at the bottom of Charing Cross. It's now a little restau[…]

F E (Ernie) Diamond

[…] And that was finical boo Vegas. Oh, and I remember that he bill Vegas. Already was. It was it was the last man we enjoyed. And the first one out the gate. Yeah, yeah.Ernie Diamond  17:31  I went I was just going ahead a bit. Yeah, yeah. No, I just wanted to know about the human situation.[…]

Una Bart (Jennings)

[…], not doing the stuff he was doing, it was very dangerous. SC: You said about coming up to London, where had you’d been? UB: We were in Ramsgate then, because when professionals retire they must keep with the public, they can’t retire into private life; they must be where the action is. So[…]
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