Vivienne Collins

[…]t, you know, why was I accepting this, why didn’t Igo and demand more money? And there was somebody in charge of the cutting rooms then, his name was Oscar, Oscar something.Mm, mm.And, and I started my usual, new habit of nagging him [Laughter] about more money and promotion. He wouldn’t give in, an[…]

Cyril Page

BECTU History Project - Interview No. 389[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-002-10Interview Date: 1996-11-06Interviewer: Alan LawsonInterviewee: Cyril PageTape 1, Side 1Alan Lawson: Right um...First and foremost, when and where were you born?Cyril Page: West Ham.Alan Lawson: West Ham. When?Cy[…]

Larry Allen

[…] was, for doing it, you know. Anyway, what happened was a bit of bad luck for me when the war came along, because Hughie Orr father recommended me to Oscar Deutsch, who owned the Gaumont-British at the time, just when Rank came into it - I think Rank came a little bit after. And his father told him […]

Bernard Gribble

[…]uns exactly 24 frames per second it seems to very odd. Yeah I found out of my cost many years later when I time in film to walk in to a very very well-known theatre in Wall Street and arrive just as the lights were going up so that I could not be noticed. And of course when I got back the film been […]

Alice (Queenie) Turner

[…]was called.Yes, yes.It was opposite the cinema offices?That’s it, opposite British Lion.Y es.Who were the cameramen in during the war years for Pathé?Oscar Bovill.Y es.Jock Gemmell, Terry Ashwood. [Pause] Frank Bassill.Ken Gordon?Ken, Ken Gordon, oh yes, old Ken, a friend of mine, yes.Yes. [Laughter[…]
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