Francis Gysin

[…];Working for it you know working with a Swiss company in London perhaps an international company anyway. But anyway having arrived at Cambridge I then joined the Fil[…]

Daphne Anstey (nee Lily)

 This material is the copyright of the ACTT History Project, Daphne Anstey widow of Edgar, editor with the National Film Board of Canada under her maiden name, Lily, interviewers JohnLegard [JL] and Gloria Sachs [GS], recorded in her home, in Hampstead Garden Suburb, 3 May 1989. Recordist Alan […]

Cyril Crowhurst

[…]s put down for the polytechnic.  And I went to the Burgh polytechnic and started a course there which, five years later, landed me with a Higher National Certificate in Electrical Engineering with Distinction in Electro-Technology.  So, you know, things were shaping.  And at that mome[…]

Stanley Watkins

[…]cause I wasn't intimately connected with by that Tim Aymes  31:11  time, I saw a film called Hollywood review of 1929 at the National Film theatre, made by MGM, and that was made the sound on film. I do know that definitely, it was very interesting film. It had some colour i[…]

Chris Kelly

[…]ther was a was a baritone. His sister was a concert pianist, and his brother is beat Misha being the younger of all three was also was a cellist international acclaim as well. And so the the older siblings left and went to Vienna, and my grandfather, then after and my and my grandfather and great gr[…]

Moira Armstrong

[…]h we’d had, you know, quite a lot of the stuff in France, yes.Yes, yes, but they had the money.Yes.[Laughter]True.Presumably because it was sold internationally, I, I don’t remember but...I suppose it probably was, I’m not quite sure. It wasn’t, I don’t think it was sold to America.Yes.But it was ce[…]

Jonathan Balcon

[…]n life. But as a result of their success making advertising films they teamed up again in 1923, and raised sufficient money through what was then the National Provinicial Bank and CM Wolf, to make a film called "Woman to Woman" Roy Fowler  10:47  Yes. Jonathan Balcon  10:49 […]

Michael Colomb

[…]  17:42  in 54. And I had an amazing situation because I applied for I was offered a job as assistant dubbing mixer at Lady Ewell's British National. And the same time I'd applied for as assistant recorders job with a BBC. And the two things happen together. And it really was a crossroads […]

John Krish

[…]had known her for years and years and years. And thanks to her I then went to Leon Clore after World Wide. And the first film I did there was for the National Union of Teachers and it was called I Want to go to School. And that was really my best time because Leon was the most loyal producer who alw[…]

Robert M (Bob) Angell

[…]orking toRobert Angel  9:16  I was working with an editor called bill Freeman, who was younger than I was that escaped the war but had done national service. And he was a very that and he was a very, very calm, experienced editor. You couldn't want a better teacher. For me. I've lost touch[…]
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