The copyright of this interview is vested in the BECTU History Project. LindsayAnderson, film director, theatre producer, interviewer Norman Swallow, recorded on 18 April, 1991SIDE 1Norman Swallow: First of all, when and where were you born?Lindsay Anderson: I was born on April 17th, 1923 in Bangalo[…]
[…] the earth when you got to know them. You've often heard itin jingoistic plays and films and whatever but the fact of the matter was when I became an officer I would have gone anywhere with that lot. I mean they were tough and they were basic, but they had a decent, and they had that wonderful north[…]
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me in on the rehearsals. He had the, all the actors who were going to be in the officers’ mess, all kind of living down, they didn’t stay together, I mean they didn’t live at night, but they spent days together for, a week or two […]
[…]t was immediately, because it was RAF and there were these American ones underneath, little gold ones, and he thought I was impersonating an American officer. And I explained it to him, and he said take that off and put that there, you're not wearing American wings under British wings. Anyway we wen[…]
Author: Melanie Williams, (School of Art, Media & America Studies, University of East Anglia)  Screen costume has now been firmly established […]
[…]ftenant acting temporary probationary sub left and RNVR and sent off to Greenwich for a so called  knife and fork course gentlemen as well as an officer and had a very pleasant and interesting three or four weeks there. By then, on the family side of the course, john has been been born in in Ma[…]
[…]sed at Benson and Anson Hudson and a Beaufort Flight Lieutenant Haggard was the officer in charge of the film unit aircraft and. These were used for making film[…]
[…]ute. I'd got to know a lot of people connected with the institute because I was involved with the Federation of Film societies. I was their publicity officer at the age of 19. That was probably our first paid job was it.SPEAKER: M15I don't believe I was paid but Margaret Hancock was in charge of tha[…]
