Harry Miller

[…]re and when where you born?HARRY MILLER: 1904, November the 25th 1904.ALAN LAWSON: What kind of schooling did you receive?HARRY MILLER: I was born in London, by the way.  My schooling was a Catholic Church school, we were Catholics our family were Catholic.  In Macklin Street, I went to on[…]

Peter Tanner

[…]f production at Lime Grove or Shepherd's Bush Studios. And I managed to get from him an introduction from Chan Balcon, he agreed to see me. I went to London. I went to Lime Grove, a wonderful studio, a sort of Hollywood to me then, little page boys with page boy hats, commissionaire at the entrance,[…]

John Aldred

[…] coincided with mine. We were standing watching the Blitz on London and he said fantastic, this is much better than […]

Chris Menges

[…]was when I left school and when I was about sixteen I got a job with an American filmmaker called Alan Forbes. Alan made documentary films. He was in London and he taught me about editing, and about camera operating, and about sound, and basically was a very committed filmmaker. And, God, I was luck[…]

Chris Strachan

[…]e, I think it was the first film here. Was probably the jazz singer, but it was, I would have thought, probably two years after it was first shown in London. Derek Threadgall  22:15  So the other jazz singer was the first sound, yeah, for most first cinemas at the time, but […]

John Hogarth

[…]y car in the whole of the road.Rodney Giesler : Where were you living then?John Hogarth : Living in Kingsbury, which was in NW9, north west suburb of London. And we were able to then visit places of interest and relations and all those sort of things that made it possible because of the internal com[…]
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