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BECTU History Project - Interview No. 290[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: ???Interview Date: 1993-08-10Interviewer: Alan SapperInterviewee: (Lord) Lew GradeTape 1, Side 1Alan Sapper : Well, I've got to mention your name Lord Lew Grade, and it's good to be speaking to you and interviewing you for[…]

BECTU History Project - Interview No. 219[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2003-03-31Interview Date: 1991-10-23Interviewer: Sid ColeInterviewee: Bernard VorhausTape 1, Side 1Sidney Cole: Bernard, Halliwell says you were born in Germany, but I gather that's quite wrong.Bernard Vorhaus: Yes that's […]

[…]Side BReed was not an editor, Lean was, but Reed was not. Reed was always...I thought he’d been an editor.No, he'd been an actor, then he was a stage manager and then he was in the production department, and not only ...But he always knew what he was doing.Yes. Right.You know. Very calmly and very q[…]

[…]o pounds a week. And being an ambitious sort of lad - I must have been - I understudied the Demon Rat - ha ha - and eventually became assistant stage manager. I remember the first lines I ever spoke on the stage. I had to go on for my understudy [sic] one night - you see, these are the things you ne[…]

[…]heard me, and he too had been on the 'Granta' which I knew, but that didn't make any difference. He then sent me on to Phil Samuel who was the studio manager, who was very nice, and he said, "Well what are you interested in?" And then I suddenly realised I really knew nothing whatever about the film[…]

[…]ing that?BH: No, I was, the vision mixer was. You had a script and you readied the shots and there was sound...JH: And TOMs, the technical operations manager, who sat on the end. The equivalent these days of tech supervisor. [unintelligible] Eddie springs to mind, one of the great TOMs.RF: Who was t[…]