Michael Houldey

[…] a mining village in County Durham. Again, a new experience like the blast furnace, and I've never been to a mining village in my life. And these are George's and these are proud men. And these are self protective men as you have to be if you're working underground, you know, you're working in a pot[…]

A A 'Alf' Tunwell

[…]reat craving to get up there permanent. But um, however the Warwick Trading Company belonged to er, a man named Ellis[?] and Bill Barker [NB. William George Barker]. Er, of course Bill Barker, very well known in the business. And they disagreed, and consequently was split up partnership. Barker move[…]

Norman Fisher

[…]reel Association, and the resulting agreement with ACT was discussed with them as a body.Roy Fowler: Yes, who was organising from the ACT end? Was it George Elvin?Norman Fisher: Yes it was George Elvin. He was the front man on the discussions which went on. So eventually we got an agreement with min[…]

Harry Miller

[…]nager.  Maybe you could explain that?HARRY MILLER: No, more as a callboy than as the assistant stage manager.  Yes, well I mean people like George Robey would give me £5 pounds worth of war loan, stopped once a fortnight, as a tip.  Phyllis Dare and Albert de Courville was, why all th[…]

Clyde Jeavons

[…]the job now can take trained archivists who’ve been on some of these courses: the most famous one presumably is the Selznick course in what’s now the George Eastman Museum, but there have been other courses like that. The National Film Archive in the ‘90s ran two of the summer schools. The summer sc[…]

Bernard Gribble

[…]right. Your film which was burned and buried by MGM and I think there is a copy still exists and then it's been resuscitated far superior. It appears George Burns film far superior. We ought to see it from then on was actually shot in sequence order and edited in six weeks by Sid so they could be ou[…]

Edward Aneurin Williams

[…]while I go into sniffing the box. Well, I've never been frightened in all my life. I mean, he was a huge orchestra at lunch, the orchestra led by Oh, George Stratton. Not so video witnesses but they all were seem to be gentlemen old enough to be my grandfather me sitting there since rich dad you kno[…]

Gus Walker

[…] said, I'll find them. So she went down the road, and she met Blue Hill, and she said, Are you the first assistant? He said, Yes, Miss Lee. She said, George, so and so and so I'm looking for and tore him to pieces. She said, Never again. Will you call me when I'm not wanted? And poor old bluey got t[…]

Joan Kemp-Welch

[…]These came in for the production...yes?Joan Kemp-Welch: No...and we did The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill, was one of the plays in which there was George Merritt and Pixie Hardwicke.Roy Fowler: Well, unless there's a particular reason to talk about the cast, I think it may be better to talk […]
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