Gordon Hales

[…]o register as a conscientious objector was it made very difficultGordon Hales  24:20  noInterviewer  24:24  i mean did one get sympathetic hearingGordon Hales  24:27  it was it was impersonal i had no advice i didn't know that there should be any witnesses to the sincer[…]

Ron Hill

Alan Lawson  0:02  The copyright of this recording is vested in the actt history project. Ron Hill technicolour technician, interviewer Alf Cooper, with Alan Lawson recorded on the 26th of January 1989. side, one . Ron when and where were you born?Ron Hill  0:39  Born in Hackney […]

Charles Crichton

CHARLES CRICHTONThe copyright of this material is invested in the BECTU History ProjectCharles Crichton, director, interviewer Sid Cole, recorded 15 December 1988,SIDE 1, TAPE 1SC: Let's start at the beginning, tell me when you were born and where you were educated and so on.CC: I was born in 1910, […]

Geoff Labram

BEHP  0:00  We're in the theatre five at Pinewood at the date is the 25th, Tuesday the 25th of October 1988. And we're going to go through the basic questionairre first, and then hopefully, if we don't get out all the bits and pieces we want from the, we'll go over to the more specialised […]

Erwin Hillier

[…]is important. This is thing which I loved and been taught, beginning to try and be tolerant to everybody and see everybody has problems, and to be sympathetic and not to be dogmatic and have an open mind about things. Sometimes an only person may have a better idea, and you have yourself. And even t[…]

Sydney Samuelson

24 Jun 1988The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Sidney Samuelson CBE, Entrepreneur, Chairman of Samuelson Film Service. Interviewer, Alan LawsonSide One.  Q: Sidney, when and where were you born?SAMUELSON: I was born in Paddington in Warrington Crescent I […]

Tom Peacock

EXTRACT:-"A chap I knew said would I like to come down to Denham. I said, 'I don’t think I know enough about fibrous plastering.' He said, 'Well, come down because they could do with men, because they’re busy.'    They were doing 'Elephant Boy' and things like that at the time, a[…]

Francis Searle

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[…]

Edward Dryhurst

[…]And the Mitchell today is more-or-less modelled on that I think. So he had the most up-to-date camera. Horace Weddon, another cameraman used to use a Pathe camera, which you would just crank at the back. Another popular camera then was the Debrie Parvo which was a four hundred magazine camera.Roy Fo[…]

Jack Hildyard

[…]Unknown Speaker  6:57  Then Now coming to directors again, in that particular period, which was the, which is the one you found the most sympathetic, if you like, to to an operators problem. Oh, that's doubt.Unknown Speaker  7:18  Well, we're going to use a lot of pictures. Yes, […]
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