[…]iew Date: 1963-10-31Interviewer: Ralph BondInterviewee: Alf TunwellTape 1, Side 1Ralph Bond: This is a recorded tape interview with Alf Tunwell. ACTT member of very long standing, and pioneer in the newsreel section of the British film industry. Alf, during your, almost a lifetime in this industry, […]
Author: Melanie Williams, (School of Art, Media & America Studies, University of East Anglia)  Screen costume has now been firmly established […]
[…] less five years older and he’s an accountant and businessman. DB: So that was for Hotel Management was it? PB-C: That’s right yes. And I remember going round the Savoy, and being shown round the Savoy – my dad had fixed it all, and I was absolutely in awe. But I think something inside me […]
[…];Darrol Blake 1:46 Can I, can I take you back? Can you go back to before the war? Yeah, I know you weren't there, but can you remember anything about what your parents did in the film industry? Kent Houston 1:56 Yes, my father was a sound engineer and[…]
[…] broke away from the rather strict religious background of both their families and, in their way, were kind of rebels. They became Quakers, they were members of the ILP, Fabians I guess... kind of Christian Socialists. [00:02:32] So when war started, as a pacifist and as a journalist I think he[…]
[…]llow countrymen and women were very prominent. Did Grierson have many connections withthe union? I can’t ...A He wasn’t a member. He was made an Honorary Member, he was never a member.Q What was the reason for this?A I have no idea because he is not anti-trade union, you know, John his brother […]
[…]Orr-Ewing who had been a Wing Commander in radar during the war, and some faceless wonder from the appointments department of the BBC, I can’t even remember who it was, I think it might have been Jack Nott but I can’t remember. Anyway, there were two vacancies and I think there were about seve[…]
[…] that sort of area. I was there, it was before 1914, because, while I was there, war broke out. One of the extraordinary things I still remember to this day was, I was only eight years old in 1914 and soon after that I remember running home and telling my mother that I had just heard tha[…]
[…]. W. H. Auden had been there just before and at that point he hadn't been regarded as respectable. His early poems came up to the school library, I remember someone saying I couldn't teach him much, I couldn't see that he could teach me anything, he produced a book of poems called the Orators part o[…]
[…]was and where to point the camera. Years later, when I arrived, these cans would be produced and I was told to go to a certain place - I can't remember if any frames were developed - anyway, point the camera at this thing, turn the handle and fade in on a certain count. So we'd dissolve from th[…]
