SIDE 1 VOICE FILE NAME: Peter Dimmock - Interview Interviewer Norman Swallow with Alan Lawson    Key:-I:  InterviewerM:  Norman SwallowP:  Peter DimmockS.l - sounds like I:  First of all, Peter, when and where were[…]
[…]ons nonetheless he's had every chance in Canada to do this and I think he's done some great work. And as we mentioned last night he he I think won an Oscar for one of his productions, when he became an editor/producer in one of the studios at the National Film Board, Bonnie Klein's film Not a Love S[…]
[…]avidson did. we did a full scale, flat out, six-and-a-half-minute musical, story musical, every week, of which one example would be the life-story of Oscar Wilde, in six and a half minutes as a musical, with him playing a Wilde, Willie Rushton playing the warder in Reading Gaol and Diana Dors playin[…]
[…]ut I had nothing against the English because they were very entertaining. They were very different. And though I've lived amongst them here in London - I'm now 68, I came here when I was fifteen and a half - I was out for most of the War of course, I've been very happy, and one could even say privil[…]
[…]s Western Electric and it gave far superior results to the old Visatone which I had been used to before. In fact the sound department won a Hollywood Oscar in 1939 for the sound recording on Goodbye Mr Chips which starred Robert Donat and I think it was the first British film to achieve this award.P[…]
[…]tor business until the outbreak of war. Now we'll now pass over to Pamela describing the rest of the interview. I'm sorry about this. Pamela Mann-Francis  0:56  My [father was a] director in a small motor company in Mayfair. And then when the war came along, he sort of freel[…]
[…]nd it's interesting how that happened. Well,Speaker 1  40:10  see, when he went to Hollywood, early part he made fury, which was he got the Oscar for that right away with Spencer Tracy, and one or two other films later that then again, he was too tough for Hollywood. Well, it'sRoy Fowler &[…]
