E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]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 […]

Vivienne Collins

[…]It would be interesting to see that film wouldn’t it if we could dig it out. I wonder what it was called? I’d like to see that film.AL: Well probably National Film and Television Archive will have it.Yes, they’ll have it, mm.Yes, yes, yes.If we could find the title somehow.Yes, yes, yes.So anyway wh[…]

Jack Gold

[…] What, the Regent Street? JG And I did, that’s right, and I did a degree in economics, and then I was supposed to go in the army, because it was national conscription, but I was grade 4 cause I had a perforated eardrum, from that, you know when I was about 3 or 4, and I thought I had two years […]

Jimmy Wright

[…]nbsp;the youngest moon. Or no not VIP. And I just tried to think a British national yes I tried British national and I think as a studio manager he was&nbs[…]

Hugh Stewart

[…]ge, got accustomed to knowing and taking in my stride a lot of non-English people. I had a Siamese friend, Argentine friends, there were Dutch - many nationalities and I have always been, therefore, very much international in my whole approach. And I remember being shocked at an early age, reading a[…]

Richard (Tony) Arnell

[…]stra with speech.JS: You had a big orchestraRA: A full symphony orchestra.JS: Where did you record?RA: In New York, it was done on the cheap with the National Youth, then there was a thing called the National Youth Administration which was part of the New Deal and this was a student musicians who we[…]
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