Chris Strachan

 This 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 any misinterpretati[…]

Ken Holt

[…]t00:50:28 a staunch Churchill man. MGM LABS 1951-5900:51:57 leaves Denham in 1951. Moved to Boreham Wood, 18 miles away; Thomas Howard, received Oscar for Blythe Spirit special effects.00:56:32 Much smaller than Denham; his work described.01:06:17 Eastman Color arrives.; is now a contact man.01[…]

Keith Nunn

[…]s is of course.So I put the extension speakers over each of the two exits at the back of the cinema and I took the lights down carefully for this well-known horror film which was very scary and started the film and the early credits came up and I think I had a green lighting on the screen just to gi[…]

Joe McGrath

[…] gonna have to speed up” 00:41:28 Every time we came to shoot on her, is taking hours - for a close up. And he says to me - “I might get an Oscar here”, and I said “You might get fired here” - and Charlie said “We’ll fire him next week”. Two years later, I went down to Shepperton to do a c[…]

Mary Orrom

Mary Orrom  Katy McGahan  0:02  OK, this is an interview by Katy McGahan, one of the curators in the Non-Fiction unit at the BFI interviewing for the BECTU History Project, Mary Orrom, filmmaker, editor and director. And it's 25th of January 2011.  Katy McGaha[…]

Jim Whittell

[…]                      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.[…]

David Puttnam

[…]sp;    Future, “A Plan for Britain”37.30        Climate Change38.40        Oscar leading to responsibility 

Bob Jordan

[…]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[…]
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