peter-tanner-history-project

[…] was the one before that? Peter Tanner: Archie Pitt, maybe. John Loder was the big star then at Ealing, they […]

Freddie Francis

[…]ox productions, because Herbert virtually ran the studios then. And there I was until we were doing a film which Freddie Young was photographing with Johnny Wilcox and Ivan Foxwell his crew. And I went home one Friday night and discovered on Monday morning that the bloody studio had burnt down. So e[…]

Geoff Labram

[…] valve factory, then was called up and did my two and a half years in REME came out there do another year at college and then wrote to Cyril wrote to john Dennis, who was my previous contact and was working at johnInterviewer  18:53  john Dennis had been the mixer on one of those he wasGeo[…]

Barbara K Emary

[…]s part-time after the first 3 months, because it was the phony war then and we went back to our jobs in the films actually.BA: So you went over to Mr John Baxter, what sort of help on the script was that.BE: It was only a question of typing things out, getting things done, it was awfully important i[…]

David Robson

[…] I didn't get it. I went to Logie Baird's place, John Logie Baird's place, to try to get in there." […]

adrian-andy-worker

[…] Highbury Studios in the mid 1940s, as production supervisor under John Croydon. There he oversaw various ‘second features’ (for example, […]

John Mackay

John Mackay - Transcript [Interviewer is not stated but is said to be Bernard Ponsonby, Date of Recording 21 07 2018] [Start of Recording] [00:00]I: OK, the copyright of this recording is vested in the Scottish Broadcasting Heritage Group. The name of the interviewee is John Mackay wh[…]

David Robson

[…]in, he was very strict in those days, was Dave Robson! He said, "How about this job?" So I said, "Ah, I didn't get it. I went to Logie Baird's place, John Logie Baird's place, to try to get in there." He said, "How did you get on?" I said, "I didn't, I didn't get the job." He said, "Well, what's hol[…]

Gerry Weinbren

[…]50s. Yes. And when I got back I told Dennis how frustrated I was from not being able to get a job in the industry. I mean I'd done a bit of work with John. I can't remember his name now who was of sound record was actually working as a cameraman then. We did a film for children down the East End but[…]
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