Charles Potter

[…]somebody else. So that practice ceased, oh, smartly, and equally, I had a they introduced a brand new restaurant car. A marvelous car. We had all the models sitting there, dinner being served for publicity purposes. And this is in the days of flash photography. Had them all season, all eating. And t[…]

David Prosser

BECTU History Project - Interview No. 88[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-01-18Interview Date: 1989-05-23Interviewer: Alan LawsonInterviewee: David ProsserTape 1, Side 1Alan Lawson: The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. David Prosser, Newsreel cameraman, late[…]

Joy Batchelor

[…]tchelor: Mm, mm.Kay Mander: And that was, what, animation and real people?Joy Batchelor: It was model and real people.Kay Mander: Did you do a lot of models?Joy Batchelor: Not too much, because we neither of us really liked it.Kay Mander: Because they're not so flexible as drawings? Why was...Joy Ba[…]

Wolfgang Suschitzky

[…] camera did you have that first day?Speaker 2  12:12  That was the house in those days, the human thinker camera and the old one, the first models where you had a prism which you pushed in for focusing, then you pulled it out and took your picture, and you had a very primitive viewfinder w[…]

Robert Beatty

This recording is the copyright of the British Entertainment History Project. The transcript is not verbatim.Interviewer Roy Fowler. Interview Date: 18th August 1988.SIDE 1, TAPE 1Roy Fowler: You've been in this country 50 years now.Robert Beatty: More now, I came over in 1937. I went to Toronto for[…]

Edward Dryhurst

BECTU History Project - Interview No. 36 [Copyright BECTU]  Transcription Date: 2003-10-01Interview Date: 1988-04-26 Interviewer: Roy FowlerInterviewee: Eddie Dryhurst  Tape 1, Side 1Roy Fowler: This recording is copyright by the ACTT History Project. It's recorded on t[…]

Tilly Day

Tilly Day (continuity) 1903-1994by admin â€” last modified Jul 28, 2008 04:32 PMBIOGRAPHY: Tilly Day worked on over 300 British films between the 1920s and 1970s, most particularly as ‘continuity girl’. Her career began at Walthamstow Studios in the 1917 and she received her first credit in […]

Peter Proud

[…];and of course being so long awayI threw the book at them with the hanging miniatures and models andprocess work and so on. But they were very pleased with it.It was a ve[…]

Winston (Wyn) Ryder

behp0011-winston-rider-transcript SIDE ONE.Roy Fowler[RF]: This is a recording with Wyn Rider, interviewed by Lesley Hodgson in the Elvin Room at ACTT on the 23rd of July 1987. This is side one. Please note that all contents of this recording are the copyright of the ACTT History Project.Lesley[…]
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