[…]rchive premises then were at Aston Clinton, Aylesbury where the first bespoke nitrate vaults were built; and Harold Brown was then Chief Preservation Officer,and he had a staff of about twenty, something like that. It can’t have been more than that. I don’t really remember [but] it can’t have been m[…]
[…]t, oh she’s made a mistake, it’s Gladys...and The Office Wife, which I did the filmography myself, in the book, underneath the photograph it says The Officer’s WifeI: That’s rightCB: Warner Brothers, with a small b, that was only pointed out to me a few days ago by a man who’d read the book. So I’m […]
[…]very first person, and set in my office. And this is long before Edgar appeared. It watched various candidates being interviewed for the job of films officer for British Transport Commission.Speaker 1  1:36  There were many who applied, and thankfully, most of them failed, looking back on […]
[…] FoxM   =   Alan Lawsons.l.   =   sounds like I:   The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Sir Paul Fox. One time Managing Director, BBC Television, Yorkshire Television.&[…]
Transcribed by Graeme Hobbs.SIDE ONEThis recording, is vested in the ACTT [Association of Cinematograph and Television Technicians] history project. Jack Gold, film and television director, interviewers, Norman Swallow and Alan Lawson, recorded on the 27th February, 1990, side 1. NS Going […]
[…]don't know how true that is. The other story that goes around of course is that depending on what port of entry an immigrant came in, the immigration officer wrote down the name of the person as he thought it was spelt phonetically. This is as maybe but to side track for a moment in 1944, when I was[…]
[…]eter.Speaker 1  14:19  It was, all right. It was, it was, it was adequate, rather more than adequate, because one got on very well with the officers, and you were invited in the mess.Roy Fowler  14:28  Now I'm trying to establish the cost of things and the way one lived in those […]
[…]Alf Cooper, Charlie Wheeler, Max Anderson, Ivor Montague, Ralph Bond. A phalanx of the Left. But right in the middle of it was the Conservative Films Officer, a redoubtable lady called Winifred Crum-Ewing. She looked every inch a Tory matron, and sounded it. She always turned up at General Council m[…]
