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[…] and I hate to say it, that what most kids get these days.Yes. What, did you have any ambitions to be anything particular?Yes. I wanted to be a dress designer.Ah, ha.I passed polytechnic trade school with trade scholarship, but my father was out of work when I was seven years old.Y es.And my mum, th[…]

[…]ft at that age in order to grow up and start work and earn some money. I my first job was. At Maidenhead and it was with and Emma Stone the radio and lighting people I it was you remember they're there to change jobs.SPEAKER: F11Yes. Yeah yeah yeah.SPEAKER: F9I worked there for a very short time but[…]

[…]e conditions were really appalling. I mean we lived in a little tiny village. It was mostly Italian crew with like few English that was Wilkie Cooper lighting Harry Gillam operating Cyril sound colic Sarah colic. That's right. Was it was the sound guy directed by a madman. I'd been an art director a[…]

NB The full transcript is available as a PDF file by cicking on the link labelled BEHP 0100T. What follows below is a thematically chaptered extract.Barbara Harris: BECTU Interview Part 1 (1989)The copyright of this recording and transcript is vested in the BECTU History Project. Barbara Harris[…]

[…]s about the beat commissions, undertakings. These were designed to be shown to the general public in cinema or by television or non theatrical clubs, designers and so on. They dealt with railways, road passenger road transport in the water based docks, hotels on purposes. Information films to provid[…]

[…]ore professional?Robert Beatty: I think so. And having to keep their costs down. There was a seemingly casual way, especially with the cameramen, the lighting cameramen, some of them could be very slow, somewhere quite good, Otto Heller was always fast, he was boom boom boom. Some of the other ones […]

BECTU History Project - Interview No. 25[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2003-01-24Interview Date: 1987-10-28Interviewers: Stephen PeetInterviewee: Philip LeacockTape 1, Side 1Stephen Peet: Ah, here we are, 28th October 1987. Name of interviewee, Philip Leacock, interviewed by Stephen Peet. The […]

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[…]

DICKIE BEST Tape 1 of 115th July 1987.Interview of Richard Best, editor, interviewer Arthur Graham.Copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project.SIDE 1, TAPE 1AG: Richard, where and when were you born.DB: I was born in Hull in 1916 and brought down to London at an earlyage, about[…]