Ron Hill

[…]e camera man. On Quovadis. It was Bob Surtees. And the other big film, where he went as the technicolour camera maintenance man was Renoir's film The Golden Coach................................................... 

Charles Crichton

[…]ls, and I saw another picture by One of my pupils the other day. And I’m taking all the credit of course. But I mean marvelous.SC: This is the London International Film School. Round about this time you were teaching at the same school but with a different name, it was called just the London Film Sc[…]

Paula Wright (Springall)

[…]ast ones. Was Scrooge, and then I went to Goodbye Mr. Chips. I was at Sherborne on contract there, and Caroline lamb, many other the big productions, Oliver and everyone, I mean, apart from the hard work, I can't say that there's anyone I haven't enjoyed great and down at Bray studios, you really go[…]

Jack Rockett

BECTU History Project - Interview No. 54 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-10-01Interview Date: 1988-08-22Interviewer: Sidney ColeInterviewee: Jack RockettTape 1, Side 1 Roy Fowler: Copyright 1988, ACTT History Project. The interview is with Jack Rockett at Glebelands on 22 August […]

Roy Parkinson

[…]w. [Laughter]2. Start of career at SheppertonRP: My father knew Norman Lee who was directing films in those days.SC: He was directing at BIP [British International Pictures] and places.RP: Yes, he was quite a well-known director. He was making a film at Riverside and so I went there as a runner, gen[…]

Muriel Cole

[…]into space and wondered what I was going to do. And then I was invited to join Yorkshire, and I had lovely ski lovely ideas that it would be very pleasant to live in Yorkshire. But of course, I pointed out to them that if they had me up there, it would mean enormous train fairs as I came backwards a[…]

Tilly Day

[…]oh, ecstatic! And I got a special letter from the Air Force about that.Sidney Cole: Do you still have the letter?Tilly Day: Oh yes, I got a Golden Leaf, or whatever you call it.Sidney Cole: Oh great, good.Tilly Day: Above my Sergeant Major one.Alan Lawson: Mentioned in dispa[…]

Bill Mason

[…]id at £3 a week on the Monday for Shell.AL: Where were you based.BM: Shellmex House -AL : St Tand .BM: The She 11 Film Unit was really part of She 11 International and should have been with Shel 1 in the City but they couldn't have a cinema there or cutting rooms with nitrate rooms. So they had a li[…]

Peter Tanner

[…]he puritan he was but I thought it was a very good comment.Roy Fowler: Did you stay with Ealing to the end.Peter Tanner: No I didn't get my golden handshake because I could see the end was nigh, I was at MGM, I did two pictures at MGM and then I got an offer to do a picture with Robert Ald[…]
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