[…]membership up for years afterwards.RF: Well if we know the year you were born, it could be traced because all the records are at Berkhampstead in the National Film and Television Archive, so you joined when, in '42 would you say?LK: YesRF: Well if anyone wants to they can go through the '42 applicat[…]
[…]ston: So yes...we finished about mid December 1932 and then the next one...Roy Fowler: Can you paint us a picture of BIP [N.B. British International Pictures] in that period of time? The atmosphere in the studio and the people you were with.E.M. Smedley-Aston: Well, the atmosphere in […]
[…]ixteen; wanted a career as a customs officer; he became a clerical officer in the civil service at the Air Ministry, moving to London in 1951; 1952 – National Service in the RAF as a clerk; at 21 he went back to the Air Ministry for eight months before looking for a new career; as a youngster he wou[…]
[…]it still looked kind of garish and colourful. And this was photographed like old masters because Ducky Slocombe used to go and study paintings at the National Gallery before he'd start to shoot things and get ideas about lighting and so forth. Anyway that that all went very successfully and then I g[…]
[…]t do it. But having gone all through the dramas, and in those days if they wanted some body to direct a film, they had to get the permission from the National Film Finance Corporation. - we are going to have so and so to direct it, and if they said no, you were out. They'd agreed that I could do it.[…]
[…]but she’s a nice girl she worked at BBC, got her in.Well, so, but I love to check all through those records to see.Yes. Well, they’re, they’re at The National Film Archive all the old...Are they?Yes, yes.Yes, I’d love to see them especially the Pathé ones, you know, all the newcomers andthat.Yes, ye[…]
