David Robson

[…] always this sort of sword of Damocles hanging over your head. But it didn't worry us, I mean it was […]

David Robson

[…]could take the output of this, if this was a television camera, you could feed the output of this straight home." I was a long way, a long, long way ahead. Because that year - this was 1936, at the end of that year, the high definition service was started at Alexandra Palace and people were already […]

ARMSTRONG, Moira BECTU copy

[…] all that and eventually I had a call from the head of casting in London Weekend saying ‘What are you doing talking […]

Moira Armstrong

[…] meant that when the dialogue in fact dried up you could actually cut it and give the prompt and it started again. And you raced...Now you’re racing ahead, you’re leaping ahead. Oh sorry. [Laughter] Moira Armstrong DRAFT. Tape 1 Side A Mm, out of university? Yes.In to The Perth Rep? Yes.And the[…]

Erwin Hillier

[…]taken back to Germany. I couldn't speak a word of German, only English. This sounds crazy. We were trying to put me in a school, and the teacher, the headmaster, said I needed at least private less for six months or more, students going to class, and you can't understand what they're talking about. […]

Anne V Coates

[…] Yah. Right. Well the official biography will have to go into[??] all there[??-8:15]. Unearth them somewhere along the line. We’ve jumped ahead, we mustn’t do that too much. BECTU History Project Interviewee Interviewer Track No Anne V Coates Roy Fowler 1 7 Yes. No. [[…]

Muriel Cole

[…]nbsp;0:23  Here we go, established our lack ofUnknown Speaker  0:27  connection. Rather important.Speaker 2  0:30  Good. Go ahead and tell us you know about yourself in personal details, when you when and where you were,Speaker 3  0:35  right? I first drew breath j[…]

James Arthur Clark

[…]d. That's 1939. I went in 1939 19. I think I went in 1940 early 1940 the war just started and the other important thing for me was that thank God the headmaster of my prep school I went to a prep school called Neville Holt which was near market harbour. An absolutely ideal spot totally isolated from[…]

Ronald Neame

[…]ody great camera. Ronald Neame  18:50  It was a great camera. And when I there was there came a time, but we'd have to jump ahead for that. That came a time when I took over the business after he was killed. And of course, the camera was one that you got onto the back cloth.[…]

Harry Fowler

[…]I got on my first picture.McG: Where did you go to school?HF: I went to four schools. I must have had, I was anxious, I’d a feeling in the back of my head that somehow, I knew I would have to get out of this way of life. It wasn’t – kids around me I saw of 14 and 15 had left school: A lot of them we[…]
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