Jimmy Wright

[…]ians who got into the Royal Air Force and. That's how I compare first jobs John's working in the camera department a Technicolor songstress that was on three st[…]

Sidney Cole

[…] it.AL: Did Grierson or Cavalcanti influence you at all?SC: Cav did but that was later on at Ealing. My involvement was on and off. I did a film with John Taylor called 'Smoke Menace' which was about pollution from the amount of smoke being pumped into the atmosphere. There's a story which John and […]

Bill Girdlestone

[…]hes, and they took him over there for two months, a long time. And the day they went out to Cairo, an American company came into Shepherd's Bush (ed. John Stuart Blackton) he was reckoned to be one of the top next to Griffith. Anyway, they were going to shoot a picture called The Gypsy Cavalier[…]

John Frame

John Frame [Start of Recording] [00:00]I: This is John Frame. I'm Tim Amyes. This is the 20th May [2017] and he was employed with STV between 1964... R: 1964 till 1992. In September. 17th. It's OK. I: So, John, where were you born? R: I was born in a lovely little village ca[…]

Norman J Warren

[…]good learning curve because I had to work out how to make these cuts and not affect the sound because it not being in sync any more and I got to know John Trevelyan very wellMARTIN SHEFFIELD: He was a character, wasn’t he?NORNAM J WARREN: Yes I liked John. I would say to this day he is the best cens[…]

John Jeffrey

John Jeffrey (JJ)Laboratories (Technicolor, Colour Film Services, Humphries)BECTU No. 273Interviewers: Alan Lawson (AL) & Syd Wilson (SW)Date: 23/02/19932 Tapes Side 100:00:00 – 00:09:05 Born 27 Sep 1917 Motherwell; schooling; 1926 strike & depression; marriage at Gretna Green and move […]

Cedric Dawe

[…]Anybody was trying to get into films and as I say this . . . . . sketch artist . . . . . . . . other Art Directors who were also then . . . There was John Meade, David Rawnsley, do you know the name and Duncan Sullivan.R. F. Now may I ask you how you actually set about getting that job and how you g[…]

Leonard (Len) Harris

[…]d I remember we did a scene, a crane shot with the 'Dad's Army' chap, the Scots bloke, what was his name?Additional speaker (unidentified): Oh was it John?Leonard Harris: Hmm?Alan Lawson: Yes.Leonard Harris: We were on this crane and he was playing John...Alan Lawson: John Laurie!Leonard Harris: Joh[…]
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