[…] Q: Was that when Oscar Deutsch died?00:03:53 JIM WHITTELL: Yes, yes, I think it was 1938 or 9 that Lord Rank bought it.[…]
[…]de overlooking the vineyard, there is Orson Welles on a verandah and standing behind this all is that Freddy Young, our great Freddy Young, Oscar winning Freddy Young with his spot meter looking there [gestures] and Orson Welles says “get that man off the set with the camera”I mean he didn[…]
[…]e parlor phone record label, which was one of the EMR group. And there was a young assistant manager there called George Martin, who was assistant to Oscar price, and George gave Dick James his contract. And Dick James said, Well, I'd like this young guy, Ronald Goodwin, to do my arrangements and co[…]
[…]lots of the satirists are Irish. The English satirists are Irish because they come from an alien society, and they bring their Gallic wit to England, Oscar Wilde Bernard Shaw, who wrote Gulliver's Travels, all Irish men of great intellect and perception, yeah. Trinity, college, Governor, I think he […]
David Watkin (DW)Director of PhotographyBECTU No. 320Interviewer: Alan Lawson (AL) and John Legard (JL)Date 03/03/19943 Tapes Side 100:00:00 – 00:12:00 Introductions; born in Margate, 1925; father was a solicitor for Southern Rail; lived in Margate until the war; as a child DW would got to the […]
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BECTU History Project - Interview No. 294 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2004-03-15Interview Date: 1972Interviewer: Jim ShieldsInterviewee: Maurice AskewTape 1, Side 1 Jim Shields: This is a recording made in 1972 at the Gate recording theatre at Elstree, of Maurice Askew, who was th[…]
[…]me about Hamlet because I was very friendly, and very fond of the cameraman on that - Desmond Dickinson.Carmen Dillon: Oh yes.Sidney Cole: Who got an Oscar for that.Carmen Dillon: Yes I know. We loved Desmond. He was lovely, yes.Sidney Cole: Absolutely lovely.Carmen Dillon: Wicked. Very wicked.Sidne[…]