[…]t of the original four film archives. He was also the creator of all the principles of film archiving. They’d already been there embryonically in the Imperial War Museum oddly enough, which was the very first film archive, formed in 1919, but principles of preservation, selection, cataloguing and ev[…]
[…]re of information has all sort of come to an end now all that library, and it's in the hands of a private company holding the archive. But unless the Imperial War Museum, because they've got a lot of those films. I think they made two I think they made two films. There was one the Graham Walla[…]
[…] bring that back." And I eventually gave it to the Imperial War Museum who were very pleased and they gave […]
[…]ng a scientist. If you want the rest, I then went on to...Alan Lawson: Yes we do, yes, yes.David Prosser: (Chuckles). Oh, to um, er, a college called Imperial College of Science and Technology in London University, but it regarded itself as separate from London University...it was based in South Ken[…]
[…] that back - a silent one, mute one, so it didn't make much difference - and I thought, "Well, I'll bring that back." And I eventually gave it to the Imperial War Museum who were very pleased and they gave me a 16mm copy of it, and they were pleased with it. And another one about the remote control […]
[…]and, it was some weeks before Dunkirk, so we arrived in 1940 in England.RF: That's astonishingLK: We have written up the story and deposited with the Imperial War Museum because it was quite an interesting story, as we were young, young girlsRF: How aware were you at the time, the threats, what was […]
[…] We have written up the story and deposited with the Imperial Wa r Museum because it was quite an interesting […]
[…]scovered Russian ballet. I do remember coming to London with my mother, Miss Potts and the pianist and staying at the Premier, a small version of the Imperial Hotel. I had never stayed in a hotel before. Miss Potts took me down for special coaching from Miss Phyllis Bedells. That turned out to be ve[…]
[…]e BECTU History Project, Queenie Turner christened Alice May. Laboratory worker, neg and pos, pos , assembler, negcutter and finally librarian of The Imperial War Museum’s Film Archives.Interviewers Alan Lawson and Syd Wilson. Recorded on the twenty-seventh of April 1993. Side One.Right well first a[…]
