Sue (Susan) Crockford

[…] fact some of the apparently leftie people like Kettle weren’t as inspiring as one would...SF: No, no. Was that the period when Arnold Kettle was the head of the English Department?Yes, yes.SF: Because he was a pal of ours obviously.He might have been a pal, he wasn’t that friendly to all of us lowl[…]

Emmanuel (Manny) Yospa

[…]- sixty - oh all those years ago - something like that. And then after a time The Worker's Film Association moved into Transport House, which was the headquarters of the Labour Party and the TUC at that time, in Smith Square. And when we used get in the lift to go up to our office, Herbert Morrison […]

Lindsay Anderson

[…]ny tape or anything of that kind.Norman Swallow: You didn’t cut the negative.Lindsay Anderson: No, the neg was cut at Humphreys, Miss Johnson who was head, and Ill tell you what was extremely interesting really, the last shot was the boat went out to sea, and then I suppose there was an optical or s[…]

Sam Williams

[…]ame along about this time in our minutes. What else didn't show they're working with Sam we had aAlf Cooper  9:17  dog with a monitor. It's headed into the corner. And it showed up fairly big you know, in light you could control but we're not like you can now but we could control within a […]

Angela Allen

[…] I sort of wonder why they’re listed there, yes.Yes, I think it’s gone silly… inaudible… They used to at one stage follow the Americans putting their heads of departments and that head of department may not have had anything to do with that production.All MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc) costum[…]

Bert Craik

[…]ame along about this time in our minutes. What else didn't show they're working with Sam we had aAlf Cooper  9:17  dog with a monitor. It's headed into the corner. And it showed up fairly big you know, in light you could control but we're not like you can now but we could control within a […]

Gordon Hales

[…] quite clearly, I can remember my father opening the window in the bedroom, in which they slept and I as a baby with the role of a Zeppelin going overhead, that must mean I was no more than two years old at the time, your birth you was 1916, right? Which may or may not be surprising that a child sho[…]

Cyril Crowhurst

[…]nbsp; But all the rest of the equipment was Weston Electric, which is interesting.Q          The cutting head was Weston?A          Yes, and one had to learn how to replace the sapphire points in it - in the he[…]

Jack Rockett

[…]y said, "Yes, we know, we think you can do it." All I was doing - I hadn't got the experience of any of these sort of things but I was able to use my head. I was able to use my brain and I could organise. Anyway, I was made - and they put me in charge of a test-piece machine shop. This was where pie[…]

Reginald (Reggie) Beck

[…] optical to magnetic, most of us resisted it?Reggie Beck: No, I didn't. My first attempt at magnetic was in Paris.Wyn Ryder: They were way ahead of us weren't they.Reggie Beck: I didn't find it a problem.Wyn Ryder: Did you find there was much post synching in those days?Reggie Be[…]
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