Patrick (Paddy) Carey

[…] years were you there?Paddy Carey  9:56  I think I was there for four years. And it gave me an interest in art which I, I had had before. Remember, when I was nine, a travelling salesman sold my mother. The Children's encyclopaedia, andI, my, my twin models are interesting, but I spent hou[…]

Cyril Page

[…]h him. But I...I only did a few inserts, that's all, just that...er so...really I didn't...didn't know him personally, so um...Alan Lawson: Can you remember his cameraman?Cyril Page: [Sighs] Er...No, I can't er...off-hand...cos I...I was working in er [hesitates] the studios, you see...Alan Lawson: […]

A A (Tubby) Englander

[…]was very early for operators wasn't it?Tubby Englander: It was early for operators, but the operator was again a sort of freelance, as far as I can remember. Ted Chown...Ted Chown, and also Alan Lawson, came in as operators to Stoll's. But they were only on a freelance basis. I mentioned Ted Chown i[…]

Oswald (Ossie) Morris

[…]girl of about seven they used to escort me when I first started. And. My brother who's two years younger than me. He started when I was seven and I remember being terrified having to look after my brother who couldn't have cared less. The age of five I mean if you if he didn't go to West Harrow went[…]

Michael Clarke

[…]e socialist club. And later, as most people did, who were serious about this, it was that time with the student communist project. This was, if you remember, in 1938, and nine, full of Albania, the fall of episodio, being a little earlier, the invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the threat of a world wa[…]

Jimmy Wright

[…]when he left to join Paramount he became general manager so I think as I remember it uh in my school days because we had moved first of all to. Halsto[…]

Ronnie Noble

[…]al things a bit of woodwork and a bit of shorthand typing. Away. Can you remember when you started in the film industry. Well yes I can because some it&nbs[…]

John Wiles

[…]t on a visit to Shepperton and I thought this was magic, I think they were making. I think it was the stars up down or something like that. I can't remember them. Anyway. So I went for this interview at Merton Park. And of course, they took me on I didn't really know what I was going to do. There wa[…]

Alan Lawson

[…]ft and he said when you've got a year's experience and we'll give you a job, which was the usual thing and stillhappens I think. And my father then remembered that Maurice Elvey who was quite a friend of him, owed him a return kindness because my father had given him introductions when he went to Ti[…]

Maurice Carter

[…]dio. And Marcel Varnel was our normal directorthere. Once, I think we made after 9 Days a Queen, the next one was Good MorningBoys, as far as I can remember. It is very difficult to remember the sequence of picturesthere.Roy Carter: Do you remember how much they paid you when you started.Maurice Car[…]
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