Cyril Pennington-Richards

[…] Wardour Street, where we took over Edibell Studios - the Edibell company - they had a studio on the top floor and we had the top two floors. And I remember very well we paid three hundred[p1] a year for them inclusive, including the studio.Alan Lawson: What actual job did you do?Cyril Penningt[…]

Lionel Banes

[…]ht, yes, yes. And he helped people. And, you know, we worked on an amateur film, yes, together. Yes, yeah, black and white, black and white. Yes, I remember that we using then Cee Lo Oh, yes, the Alfred, Alfred, yes. Was it reversal or no? Negative? Yeah, yes, they had both, but I worked with negati[…]

Chili (Dorothy) Bouchier

[…]in Brownlow (1938-) is an English filmmaker and film historian whose work focuses on the preservation of films from the silent era. He won an Academy Honorary Award in 2010. I: Yes, he also worked at Ealing so it might have been at Ealing that you CB: No, it was definitely at GainsboroughI: At […]

Christopher Challis

[…]he Eckerts. But they couldn't do that when they went to backed stock, sound. So I was very lucky. These two things created a job for me.KGY: Do you remember the hours you worked.CC: One never knew. Normally the newsreel operated from Filmhouse, Wardour St., they had a camera room in the basement the[…]

Charles Picken

[…]et and now consider myself fully Odeon-Branded. I proudly wore them on many later premieres at the Odeon when Peter often invited me to assist as an “honorary memberof the management team and would continue to do so in my “second stint” with Odeon which provided the grand finale to my cinema life.[…]

Julia Cave

[…]sturbed because if they happen to have come out rather darker than some of the whites, they were victimized quite definitely by the army kids and I remember being in a playground and having to fight the battle on behalf of a rather darker child who claimed to be Welsh.  These kids obviously wan[…]

Daphne Shadwell

[…]Daphne Shadwell, http://bufvc.ac.uk/bectu/oral-histories/bectu-oh [date accessed]By accessing this transcript, I confirm that I am a student or staff member at a UK Higher Education Institution or member of the BUFVC and agree that this material will be used solely for educational, research, scholar[…]

Ron Hill

[…]bout three girls. And they were on call one he did other moulds making moulds.Alan Lawson  13:50  Yes whatwere they for you  Can you remember,Ron Hill  13:54  Camden Town but that was nothing nothing on my side.Alan Lawson  14:05  Then Then what what happened when […]

Harry Coventry

[…]and a half? Harry Coventry  2:44  Yes, I mean, I it was amazing. You don't think that at that sort of age, you're going to remember very much. But I remember so much of it. I remember the boy at the end of the road where we used to go to pay the rent. He got on the bus, and […]
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