Noreen Ackland

[…]well, and did what he wanted, which was defined as little to do frame trims and things. Who else was in the cutting room there? Only yes. There's Bob Johnson. Yes. Johnny Ferris, Johnny Ferris. Yes. Brett Porter. Jeff Foote, Jimmy Corbett.Alan Lawson  7:00  And his right pick wasn'tNoreen […]

Frank Littlejohn

    Frank Littlejohn Transcript  The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project, Frank Littlejohn, one time managing director, Technicolor England. Interviewer BernardHappe[…]

Christopher Challis

[…]e them in colour because there is a big market gin travellogues. He thought this was rather good idea and he teamed up in Italy with this chap called John Hanau and they jointly decided to make three test films in Italy. One was about zoos, one was about Rome called Rome the Eternal City and the thi[…]

Roy Parkinson

[…]: Riverside, oh yes that was just the one picture, I never went back there again.SC: So you spent some time at Shepperton. RP: Yes. Then I did a John Argyle picture Happy Days Are Here Again, with the Houston sisters [3 sisters, Renée, Billy, Shirley.SC: Oh yes Renée and Billy, RP: Re[…]

Winston (Wyn) Ryder

[…]imagine – I haven’t been near a studio for ages [20.00mins], in the dark trying to take note for  film I’d never seen before; anyway, at the end John Ridd, comes into some house, I presume Carver’s house in the Doone Valley, crawled in, sheepskin coat, looks as if he’s got the hearth rug over h[…]

Cecil Buckland

[…]ding] [00:00] R: What's the intro? How are you going to do it? I: I'll do a quick ID. Right, interview with Glen Michael. Interviewer, John Frame. Date of interview - 20 May 2017. Right then! Glad you could get along. How did you first get into Scottish Television? R: I think you[…]

Peter Graham Scott

[…]nown called ‘Spellbound’ with Derek Farr and Mural Pavlow, (who later got married). Erm, but that was just a cheap thing, directed by somebody called John Harlow. Er, we (laughs) we said ‘Harlow by name, Harlow by nature!’. He was a nothing; a production manager – they just got him in quickly. And t[…]

Una Bart (Jennings)

[…]ll of the films, in the music department. CS: Can you remember any of the composers that Ernest engaged UB: Yes Vaughan Williams of course, John Dreamwood, John Ireland. CS: As you mention them can you say something about them, Vaughan Williams you mentioned. UB: Yes Vaughan Will[…]

Geoff Hermges

[…] over from a man called Derek Stewart, who then started Derek Stewart films, and he and myself and A man called George Hadland, who was my assistant, John seIf. John Hadland started. John Hadland, who were the great firm on all aspects of high speed cinematography, and are now in, I think, Bob Engla[…]

Ronald Grant

[…]ording is vested in the British entertainment history project. The name of the interviewee is Ronald grant. The interviewer is Mike dick, on cameras, John Luton. The interview number is eight to nine. The date is the 24th of April 2023. And we're filming at the cinema Museum in Kensington, London, w[…]
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