…and questions to be covered, This can be found below this synopsis. [DS]behp0277-paul-fox-synopsisSIDE ONEBorn Bournemouth, 1926, son of a doctor, no pre-war experience. Whilst in the Army he joined a…
…ge under F.R. Leavis, he entered the film industry in the early 1930s at Gaumont-British under the apprenticeship scheme run by Ian Dalrymple. He trained as a film editor, initially cutting together o…
Father of Barry Norman behp0126-leslie-norman-summarySIDE ONE[Leslie Norman has had his larynx removed, so that his speech has been impaired, similar to Jack Hawkins]Born in Shepherds Bush, London, 19…
…where he witnessed the beginning of the 14th Army push to regain Burma talks of -highlight">Oscar Bovill (a newsreel cameraman from Universal ?) He suffered from pleurisy and then invalided back to the UK via Pal…
… regularly in the issue sheets. Simon appeared in the Pathe News comic item ‘MOO-SIC TILL THE COWS COME HOME’ in No.50/4 of January 1950, which he covered with Rudkin. The Pathe story card explains th…
…ne stories. In January 1948 he appeared dressed as a Chinaman in ‘1948 WELCOMED - CHELSEA ARTS BALL’ in British Movietone News No.970, and in March 1948 he appeared again in ‘EASTER 1948 - THE NO-BASI…
…oting numerous films for him before WWII. After the war he was contracted by MGM-British, for whom he had previously shot Goodbye Mr Chips (1939). From this point onward, Young worked almost exclusive…
…on meetings held at a Hammersmith cinema, in which Monica Toye, a well know left-wing shop steward at Denham, spoke. Janet was shocked to hear Toye being taunted at these largely male gatherings with …
…nist Party and the Young Communist League; Marie herself became involved in left-wing activism (for example in 1968 she was Honorary Treasurer of the North West London branch of the Vietnam Solidarity…
…st: Later in his career he freelanced as a specialist researcher on many archive-based documentary productions for major UK broadcasters (BBC, ITV, Channel 4). His work often involved finding and sele…