Sheila Whitaker

[…]: You didn’t do film at Warwick?No, no. I mean I, you know, I obviously knew a lot about film. During my time at the archive I used to be down at the NFT three, four, five times a week, you know, I saw a lot of movies.SF: Saw a lot of stuff?Mm.SF: I’m sorry, did you get to know people like John Gill[…]

Clyde Jeavons

[…]ng done something important; and they also wanted to see the films shown, they wanted them shown. So occasionally – I did a lot of programming at the NFT at the time: David [Francis] used to call me the public face of the archive, he did a lot of background stuff, I did all the front stuff. A lot of[…]

Ronald Grant

[…] bad in films and filming. It used to say would you like to work at the BFI? We're sorry, the wages are not very good. But you do get free tickets to NFT you do get this and you do get that pension and all the rest of it. They used to apologise Oh no, he said it's much better now. He said Jenny Lee,[…]
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