Searching for Jack Cox

[…] support and inspiration to his younger colleagues. To camera operator Len Harris, Cox was ‘a marvellous chap’. At Gainsborough, when he […]

Anthony Mendleson

[…]son : Yes I did, very much so because I was brought up in a very remote part of South Wales, by my Aunt, because my Mother died. And there we had a silent film show every week in the village hall, so I saw a great number of silent films, we used to go every week. And it was extraordinary because, on[…]

David Robson

[…] it, you could press a button and open it. But the idea was, if the machine slowed down for any reason - in other words, you'd got a gate fire, the solenoid would be de-energised and the weighted dowser would drop down and shut you down and also shut the motor off, the whole lot was shut down. That […]

E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]e was I think Edgar Wallace had put a large slice of dough into that because they did make a lot of his pictures there. You know 'The Whip' and The Calendar and all those things, you know.Roy Fowler: They were quota pictures weren't they?E.M. Smedley-Aston: Well I think some of them were s[…]
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