BECTU History Project - Interview No. 294 [Copyright BECTU] Transcription Date: 2004-03-18Interview Date: 1972-05 Interviewers: Jim ShieldsInterviewee: Kay Mander  Kay Mander: Joy, could we start with when and where you were born?Joy Batchelor: I was born in Watford, and at […]
[…]f Africa because we all know that it culminated in receiving what is considered the highest award in the Motion Picture business, that is the Academy Oscar. Can you tell us a little bit about working on the picture and your enjoyment and problems and so on.PH It goes back beyond Out of Africa. It re[…]
[…]ob AllenSIDE 1, TAPE 1BA : Perhaps you could tell us when you first ca me into the film industry, how you got interested in filmmaking, what lead you - into it.BE: The most interesting thing is that as a teenager I was all against films, I never went to see a film when I was a teenager, they were fa[…]
[…]an engineering miracle to me, it had two gates in the camera which were at right angles to each other and one was a single film and the other was a bi-pack. Two films running together emulsion to emulsion and the image coming through the lens was split intensity allowing a third of light to the sing[…]
[…]  13:28  I did a few shots in a picture. I describe him as a good camera man. He lit a picture in Hollywood before he came here that won an Oscar, I think for photography, he was somewhere on the nervy, really type as I remember him. You know, after he licked something, he wasn't sure if h[…]
BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for[…]
BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for[…]
BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for[…]
[…]lmed Guy Fawkes night with Shaw Jones, that was some kind of joint venture. We weren't involved financially with it but we joined with him and we had -I went down from Cambridge and wanted to get into films and everyone said the film industry was in crisis, this was 1938, and i was involved in a sma[…]
