[…] UK’s oldest Film Societies from their base at Film House in Randolph Crescent. This building also served as the HQ base for the Edinburgh International Film Festival and Films of Scotland which acted as a sort of national liaison contact for film companies planning shoots involving Scottish l[…]
[…]; But one could see, even though there were two newsreels a week, and on occasions they did a special newsreel, I mean, on an occasion like the Grand National, the Cup Final and things, longer than the days before television, they did special editions, rushed the prints into the cinemas, and you wor[…]
[…]cognize it as a factor in my mental makeup that I'm not particularly coherent in my in my range of attitudes about crucial things – war, peace, love, nationalism and so on you know.Colin Moffat: Of course I heard you mention it but because of your very much later large film about the army, the thesi[…]
[…] DSMW: Well although we didn’t call our first interview the first one, with David Francis, this is our second interview with archivists from the National Film and Television Archive in the UK.The copyright in this recording is vested in the British Entertainment History Project and the name of […]
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[…] Francis, this is our second interview with archivists from the National Film and Television Archive in the UK . The […]
[…]was nothing you just had it or you didn't have it. She persuaded me in the end to go into the airforce instead of chasing after this rainbow was that national service.SPEAKER: M7No you volunteered. No I volunteered in 19 1956 I volunteered.SPEAKER: M3To go into the airforce for a career because my m[…]
[…]earliest film memory was going to his studio which was Worton Hall at Isleworth which subs, subsequently became the Korder Studio and then became the National Coal Board something or other. I don’t know what it is now. And I can remember as a perhaps five or six years old and being taken to the stud[…]
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[…] it. I found recently with Minder! it became such a national name that location managers only had to knock on […]
