[…]film went broke and they therefore sold off their English company to pay off their German debts. So I was out of a job again. And they had an amazing library of old films. They had the very oldest of British talking films, interviews with famous people like George Bernard Shaw, coverage of events li[…]
[…]? Maybe we should change this to him. I think we have to speak from some of them out there.So it Oh, you must meet so she was who's who's the head of library? Thornley Miss Thornley? Yes. Miss Thornley had an office because she kept all the designers references which were opposite the backseat[…]
[…]de quite a little sensation, as Dave could have showed a man being killed by a lion. And so this was the kind of thing he did. His brother ran a Film Library in New York. So he had all the stock material to build up and pretend that what he were doing was original, you know, that you see, he had the[…]
[…]John Legard: ...in those days. And you had a very early non-flam 35-mm, which was rather brittle stuff. Because I remember seeing some of that in the library when I joined Crown in 1943...this strange material which had been used for non-theatrical screenings, in the late 1930's.Pat Jackson: Yes.Joh[…]
[…]arted, the realisation, and I’m sure all independents feel this, of how cushioned one was at the BBC, how wonderful their support services are: their library, their news information, their copyright, their... everything that you have to worry about now, or I have to worry about and Charles worries a[…]
[…];of months stripped the stripped the studio of one of its biggest assets either library a library which was a good money spinner. It accounted for for about 25&[…]
[…]ought he was a stand up comic. I ♦ And I thought I must catch this guys act one day, because he makes me laugh. And then I was in Canning Town public library one day and saw this shelf of books, and I thought Christ he writes as well, and started reading them. Immaturity was the first one I think I […]
