Hugh Stewart

[…]lunteered to go out to the East and I was much more frightened of mosquitoes even than I was of Japanese! And then I joined Alex Korda and I lived in London for a while. It was all pretty unsatisfactory. Alex hadn't anything for me to do; he hadn't anything for anybody to do. But he had got hold of […]

Angela Allen

[…]lm titles are in bold textUnknown words have been highlighted in yellow Side 1So can you tell us where and when you were born?Yes, I was born in London in Maida Vale on the 12th February 1929.Can you give us a bit of your sort of early educational background?I think my very first school was a c[…]

Ernest Marsh

[…]n room watching the proceedings and the Katie Katie 12 projectors were showing the film many years later, when, when I was working in the West End of London, I went into Frank brockless One Afternoon to pick up a piece of equipment. And we, I was talking to the guy in there, and he came up with this[…]

Erica Masters

[…]e 1Sydney Samuelson: Well we're sitting here on the 2nd August 1995. We're in the meeting room of the British Film Commission, at 70, Baker Street in London, and the interviewee is no less than Miss Erica Masters, a legendary production person in our industry, sadly not living in this country any lo[…]

Joy Batchelor

[…]hat time?Joy Batchelor: Anything but teach. [laughs] Which is what my parents dearly wanted me to do, but I'm afraid I stuck my heels in, and went to London to look for a job, and do you know nobody wanted me. There I was, brilliant, talented, young - you know - and nobody would give me a job! [laug[…]

Sheila Collins

[…]lins family, and I used to spend all my spare pocket money going down and queuing up for the pit or the gods at the Theatre Royal, seeing all the pre-London shows. And I had intended trying to go on to university, but it was very difficult at that time because you’d got all the people leaving the fo[…]

Johnny Goodman

[…] I then left the film unit and came back to London and went to Bobbington into the Armoured Corps and […]

Tom Peacock

[…] only just started, they came from Isleworth. Roy Fowler: Yes, London Films do you mean? Tom Peacock: London Films yeah. And […]

Anne Hanford

[…]ions on a part time basis.  First of all, at I think it was called the Nottingham and District Technical College and then after, when I moved to London, at North West Poly.  So that’s where I did my professional qualifications.SUE MALDEN: [TIME 03:10]    What did you say the name[…]
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