Erwin Hillier

[…]love painting, and I started to study painting, and I was hoping to be a painter. And then during the inflation which hit Germany very hard, as you remember, all the money was devalued. Practically overnight, it came to 30 trillion marks to a pound. You know, you My father used to change a pound on […]

Ronald Neame

[…]etty well, very nearly born in the film studio. Now my father took time out from his business, and directed a few films, which starred my mother. I remember in particular one called The Lady of Shallot. I think it ran for 10 minutes, The Lady of Shallot, one reel in fact, and what was very special. […]

Dudley Lovell

[…]ird baby there, and I parked in it and I was amazed to find it was suddenly just next row where I had the wrong. I actually saw the house. I didn't remember it, of course, and and from then, I think we were living in Brixton in those days. From Brixton, we went to Clapham and moved around Catan my w[…]

Philip Donnellan

[…] I joined the BBC I was brought into the BBC as an announcer because I had an impeccable standard southern English accent and that was the accent I remember in my father who by becoming an officer in the First World War had adopted the conventional Officer's Mess accent. Now if I look back on it and[…]

Sydney Samuelson

[…].... th th that was manifested in the behaviour of John Davis to others. He was a really brutal man with his mouth. And I remember when a new homery, Honorary Treasurer of the fund was appointed, a very nice guy and of course qualified, Colin Wills his name was. John Davis took and instant dislike t[…]

William R Vicker

[…]nknown Speaker  22:01  cinematographer.Unknown Speaker  22:05  BSC, the British society of cameras, cinematographers, like I'm an honorary member Yes, of the of that,Unknown Speaker  22:14  presumably you never profited. It from that innovation,Unknown Speaker  22:[…]

John Cotter

[…]umont you just stuck a normal ordinary camera up in front of the monitor and filmed off themonitor and it was all very hit and miss and the thing I remember most about doing this is as onejob that we all loathed to do because of the difference in the phases of electricity, you found thatyou were get[…]

Geoff Hermges

[…]t that time was a friend of the young actor who died during the war one working on next of kin, a man called Dickie Norris. And in those days, if I remember right, I think even Freddie Young was working somewhere out there at one stage, but they were making, quote, A quickies. And I spent a consider[…]

Bob Jordan

[…]st and get it right and Hammer is very good.[01:06:23:320] JK: [Background comment, apparently a technical matter, unintelligible]BJ: If I can remember. You are running, are you? JK: Just the end now Bob. BJ:  I thought yes what I was given the chance to be a focus puller and&nbs[…]

Gerry Fisher

[…] on the as it were the bridgehead leading up to the passage over the river. And number 12, although we left I left there before I was old enough to remember because we left there when I was two and a half or something like that. So I don't remember a thing about except that I know from conversations[…]
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