BECTU History Project - Interview No. 6[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2003-05-25Interview Date: 1987-06-09Interviewer: Jim ConnockInterviewee: Kitty WoodTape 1, Side 1Jim Connock : This is an interview with Kit Wood. I'm doing the interview, I'm Jim Connock and we're doing it in London on the […]
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Kay[ph] she was always called.
Right. Mhm. Right. How many in the family? Because one knows really the, Joseph, the – James rather.
Yes, Uncle Jimmy.
Y es.
Well there was the, Joseph was the father.
Father.
Yes. And then there was James, Uncle Jimmy, who was the oldest, who was, m[…]
[…] when I worked for Pathe. Mickey Hickey: That's right, and Jim Mellor then? Bob Allen: Jim...? Mickey Hickey: Jim Mellor. […]
[…] when I worked for Pathe. Mickey Hickey: That's right, and Jim Mellor then? Bob Allen: Jim...? Mickey Hickey: Jim Mellor. […]
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Mickey Hickey: Tommy Cummins was our chief.
Bob Allen: Yes, because I knew him when I worked for Pathe.
Mickey Hickey: That's right, and Jim Mellor then?
Bob Allen: Jim...?
Mickey Hickey: Jim Mellor.
Bob Allen: No I don't remember that name.
Mickey Hickey: Oh well he was at […]
[…]he tried to do a 3-track stereo. He ran 35[mm] at the same time. He was quite keen in those days. LH: Paddy was a pretty good mixer. He did Lord Jim, completely on the side, if Paddy Cunningham hadn't shot Lord Jim and Basil Fenton-Smith hadn't shot The Seventh Dawn, or whatever it was called, […]
[…]And towards the dying days of ACTT, I was elected on to the executive and served for about two years on that. Then, at about the time of the death of Jim Connock, I was then elected chairman of the London Film division. So I was chairman of London Film division, I think for some two years, during ve[…]
