Ronald Neame

[…]a was running Napoleon with a 60 piece orchestra at in the one of the great big establishments in in Hollywood, a little art house theatre called the new art was running a reconstituted copy of loud room. And I'd never seen it. And so I went down to the new art theater as an elderly gentleman now, b[…]

Dudley Lovell

[…]school I came in contact with a man called Frank basil. Now that was the Frank Brown, the Frank bevel on the lawn remember, I think of ICT he was the newsreel cameraman, and this was his son. And at Frank Basil's PLOS, we had old padley wooden pathi cameras, and a mass of memorabilia from the war. A[…]

Charles Picken

[…]School as I started to become more involved in the local school Film Society becoming  its Treasurer and then playing a major part in creating a new concept in “school film society” by initiating the Edinburgh Schools Film Society. The idea was a simple one born out of the frustration of workin[…]

Val Guest

[…], was it towards dramatic writing, did you plan to be a novelist perhaps.VG: No, in the early days, in my very early teens I drifted into writing for newspapers and I was in Fleet St where I used to do the film page for the Sphere and the London Illustrated News, and all the fan magazines of those d[…]

Anne V Coates

[…]centrated on his career. Because I was working fairly solidly as an editor, and so, he, he, a lot of the time he didn’t take jobs because he was, he knew where he was heading, which, he wanted to be a director. And so, he didn’t take jobs... And he was able not to because I was working, so that he c[…]

Erwin Hillier

[…]y in the world. It's the language. We beat them. And therefore all the great talents like lubrigs and so on, all emigrated to Hollywood because they knew there was a greater chance to expand. But Ufa, in those days, had some enormous talents, very exciting, I think, perhaps the most talented studio […]

Douglas Slocombe

[…]n that, I don't think I'd ever use a Mitchell before, before, probably for that. That's why, because I think most of the material had been doing with Newman. CanSpeaker 2  13:52  you find any problems connected with using a mutualSpeaker 3  13:57  Not really, no, except that one […]

Chili (Dorothy) Bouchier

[…]he was sitting in front of me in the cinema watching one of my films, so, it just goes to show.I: Was that an ambition?CB: Oh, right from a child, I knew thatI: You knew what you wanted to do?CB: Yes because in the First World War mother used to take my brother and myself to the cinema every Saturda[…]
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