BECTU History Project - Interview No. 389[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-002-10Interview Date: 1996-11-06Interviewer: Alan LawsonInterviewee: Cyril PageTape 1, Side 1Alan Lawson: Right um...First and foremost, when and where were you born?Cyril Page: West Ham.Alan Lawson: West Ham. When?Cy[…]
[…]rt of cheap-jack producers, and he didn't pay some of our members their wages. And of course it came up to us, and what we usually did was to ask the laboratory members not to work on his film, he was blacked. Of course you couldn't get away with that now, but it was very effective and we sort of go[…]
[…]y got me I don't know. And that I thought the first one carry on this was so funny. I mean, I can remember writing rooms in the papers about it being laboratory humour, and all sorts of things like that. But really, I mean, it's innocent these days. But it wasn't, it was very, very funny. I remember[…]
[…]riginal cassette recording.Tape 1 Side A.The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project, Queenie Turner christened Alice May. Laboratory worker, neg and pos, pos , assembler, negcutter and finally librarian of The Imperial War Museum’s Film Archives.Interviewers Alan Lawson a[…]
Les Hilling (LH) Laboratory, Props, Rigger, Printer (Technicolor, Twickenham Studios, Pinewood)BECTU No.274 Interviewers: Alan Lawson (AL), Syd Wilson (SW)Date 03/03/931 Tape Side 100:00:00 – 00:12:50 Introductions; born in Castelnau, Barnes, August 1914; school at Brackenbury Road, H[…]
SIDE 1 INTERVIEWER: The date is the 6th of July, 1993. This [is] interview number two-seven-one, with Charles Smith. Right. Okay, when—when were you born, and what sort of childhood did you have, and what your parents were. CHARLES SMITH: Well, I was born in 1920, May, in Rugby in Warwicks[…]
Paddy O’Gorman (PO)Union (ACTT) Laboratories (Technicolor)BECTU No.257Interviewer: Alan Sapper (AS)Date 31/07/921 Tape Side 100:00:00 – 00:05:45 Introductions; born in Tipperary educated by the Christian Brothers; lived in Tipperary until he was 18 when he joined the Irish Army in 1936; one of […]
BECTU History Project Interview no: 251 Interviewee: Anne V Coates Interviewer: Roy Fowler Duration: 9:59:37
The interview was conducted over five days, non-consecutive, without a tape change at the end of each session so that they run through.
Session 1: 20.05.1992 Session 2: 29.05.1992 Sessi[…]
Stan Sayer (SS)Laboratories, Visual Effects, Camera Operator (Technicolor)BECTU No. 242Interviewers: Alan Lawson (AL) Syd Wilson (SW)20 February 19921 Tape Side 100:00:00 – 00:10:00 Introductions; born in Highbury, Islington, 11 May 1917; attended Middlesex University College, Muswell Hill; las[…]
