Daphne Shadwell

[…]ort of straight acts, you know, I wasn’t so keen. Who was that marvellous man with the...? Clarkson Rose, I remember, as being wonderful and his group. I’ll always remember Clarkson Rose, Twinkle. And the man with the car, the exploding car.Harry Tate?DS: Harry Tate. Harry Tate Junior[…]

Philip Leacock

[…]orked with, one way and another, a lot of the people who were the early pioneers of documentary in the country I suppose, because it was a very small group then wasn't it?Philip Leacock: Yes. I worked with, on loan out to Elton. I edited a film which John shot in what is now called Iran, which was s[…]

Bessie Bond (née Span)

[…]ers’ guild, well...Q Well, there were so many weren’t there?A Loads of them - Data, Rail, Wallace Productions.Q But, let me think, there was one group who went and, except for one or two films...A Ray Films - them I dealt with quite a lot.Q Merton Park.A Oh Merton Park - well that was part of t[…]

Sidney Cole

[…] He'd already been out there and made some films e. g. Defence of Madrid. In 1938 he had this project for making more films out there and assembled a group of people which included Arthur Graham, Alan Lawson, Thorold Dickinson and Philip Leacock, who afterwards became a well-known direct, and off we[…]
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