[…]ng, the old Debrie. And, in order that he could release his few supers, and save a bit of money, together with George Pearson, who helped me with the lighting, we shot the scene. Now of course that was my first real start in studio work. And then of course the war, and I joined up into the army in 1[…]
[…]heard of! Such things didn't exist. People were only employed not from picture to picture but from day to day. I mean, your cameraman - there were no lighting men in those days; the cameraman did the lighting - your cameraman would be, probably, on a day to day rate; certainly not more than a weekly[…]
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[…]
CHARLES CRICHTONThe copyright of this material is invested in the BECTU History ProjectCharles Crichton, director, interviewer Sid Cole, recorded 15 December 1988,SIDE 1, TAPE 1SC: Let's start at the beginning, tell me when you were born and where you were educated and so on.CC: I was born in 1910, […]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 51 [Copyright BECTU] Transcription Date: 2002-11-18 Interview Date: 1988-08-19 Interviewer: Roy Fowler Interviewee: Andy (Adrian) Worker Tape 1, Side 1 Roy Fowler: An interview with Adrian, otherwise known as Andy, Wo[…]
The copyright of this recording and transcript is vested in the BECTU History Project. Doris Martin was interviewed by Sid Cole on 16 August 1988.1. Getting started in filmSC: Your parents didn't have any connection or did they with the film business?DM: No connection at all. My father had a small p[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 40 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2003-02-10Interview Date: 1988-06-15Interviewer: Roy FowlerInterviewee: Ella MallettTape 1, Side 1[N.B. side 3 of another interview takes up about a quarter of side 1 of this tape, before the above interview starts.]&[…]
[…]s was?Tilly Day: That was two famous dancers were dancing there. You had an awful lot of men around didn't you, in those days? I mean there were lighting blokes, you know...Alan Lawson: Hmm, electricians all around the rails here...Sidney Cole: Yes.Tilly Day: Oh, an awful lot the[…]
[…]to see that everybody was in the right place at the right moment was something that I admired enormously amongst professional technicians. For a good lighting camera man, to be able to call up which lamps he wanted on the whole rail and on the floor and get it right and see that the work was done by[…]
Copyright ACTT History Project, Bill Mason, film director, film producer, recorded on 4th October 1987, interviewer Alan LawsonAL: Where were you born.BM: I was born in Edgebaston, which is the snob part of Birmingham on 9th November 1915 .AL : What kind of schooling did you receive.BM: I went to on[…]
