David Robson

BECTU History Project - Interview No. 431[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: TBCInterview Date: 1998-03-25Interviewer: Alan LawsonInterviewee: David Robson[Tape 1, Side 1]The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. David Robson, one time cinema projectionist, television […]

E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]ry, very seldom, you know. As you probably are aware of course we had our own labs there. They were just right across in the studio compound. Elstree Laboratories, all film was processed there so that it was completely self-contained, from the script right through to the cinema. Maxwell had it absol[…]

Larry Allen

BECTU History Project - Interview No. 381 The Copyright of this interview with Larry Allen is the copyright of the British Entertainment History Project. To use contach the Secretary Sue Malden sue.malden@btinternet.com  Transcription Date: 2002-07-08Interview Date: 1996-04-11&nb[…]

Julia Cave

Julie Cave Interview Number: 380    Interviewee: Julie CaveInterviewers: Norman Swallow, Alan LawsonTranscriber: Alexis PooleNorman Swallow: Copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project.  Julia Cave, television director and producer.  Interviewer Norman[…]

Richard Marden

[…] shooting it a very good English camera man whose name I know and I've forgotten very good man indeed. Anyways, we'll come to a shot on Geva t colour laboratories  film labs in Brussels Belgium could not produce do a cinema process itAlan Legard  28:55  all right.Richard Marden  […]

Christopher Miles

[…]he production. And on the Monday and my editor then Peter Musgrave  said, No, we can't work on your film we've been blacked, and then I rang the laboratories  and they said, Well, we've been black, too, we can't develop it. And then I realise the ACTT aws the projection is not going  […]

James Arthur Clark

[…]was. I think it was the very early groundhog reel to reel thing. 1951 it could be. Yeah I know it was a tape recorder and we dumped it at Brent Brent laboratories which I believe is existed until quite recently.SPEAKER: M2Anyway it wasn't exactly a great film I do have a copy of it it's pretty dread[…]

David Watkin

[…]lm stock; Kodak has been excellent over the years; DW talks about excellent stock which he shot the Paddington film on, the ‘five-four’; in 1974, the laboratories in California decided to develop a new stock which could be developed at a higher temperature and higher speed, with all-new formulas, wh[…]

F E (Ernie) Diamond

BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for[…]

Rodney Giesler

[…]nergy Authority and the films officer there was Bill Ackroyd, formerly Coal Board. And he knew me. Knew my films. It was a safety film for the Culham Laboratories. They were losing people there from electrocution, because they mounted these fearsome experiments and the layout was always changing. So[…]
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