Cyril Page

[…]ollocking and sent back. Anyway, Mr Garside, he said "Right! A third time - you're out!" Anyway, at the end of the film, it was called er 'Crime Over London', with Basil Sydney and Margot Grahame, and er...Anyway, Douglas Fairbanks, he gave me a fiver, and I...cor! that was like, ooh, you know, abso[…]

Daphne Anstey (nee Lily)

[…]l in Calgary and then I went 2 year’s school in Vancouver Island and then I came back and went for two more years in Calgary, and then I went down to London, Ontario, to University for a year because my grandmother lived down there and every summer we used to go down and stay with her, she had a far[…]

Interview

[…]the footsteps.Unknown Speaker  3:42  And that was cold. It wasn't Alexander cold. SoSpeaker 2  3:45  Alexander Calder was head of London films. We also did a film called The wooden horse. And that was I was a second assistant editor on that film and Lord Braeburn came on as an as[…]

Laura Mulvey

[…]use Oxford was considered a very safe place to be born at that time, but then I grew up for the rest of the war in the country and did not go back to London with my family until 1946.00.53 The first film I ever saw, strangely enough, was Nanook of the North which I saw quite soon after coming back t[…]

Joan Kemp-Welch

[…]und. But in those days there wasn't that amount of contact, and yet the style of feeling was changing.Roy Fowler: Well there was between, what - London and New York, say? There was an enormous theatrical interchange from Victorian times on and so...Joan Kemp-Welch: Yes, there was, but then[…]

June Randall

[…]with, can you tell us about your early life – where you were born and who your parents were and where you went to school?Yes, I was born in London, the city of London. My parents were both Cockneys as well as I. I went to school until I was ten locally and then was evacuated to Australia, […]

Peter Sargent

[…] were on location where there was a clubhouse, and I used to beat her. But she was very pleasant.DB. Where was that on location? Which film?PS. South London, funnily enough. It wasn't a glamorous place, it was a sports ground belonging to the studios. Oh yes, she was very pleasant. It wasn't until s[…]

Christopher Miles

[…]tshire on March the 31st 1995. Reel one,I mightask you when you were born, Christopher Miles  0:28  right, I was born 19, April 39, in London town and the sound of bow bells. So not quite a Cockney, but can you tell me a bit about your family and how you came to be in the film industr[…]

Dennis Kimbley

[…]o see where they could save money by not having so much waste, either time or materials and things like that.Interviewer  3:35  Was this in London itself?Dennis Kimbley  3:37  No, wealdstone just just out of London.Roy Fowler  3:40  Was it a far flung company in those d[…]
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