Richard (Dickie) Best

[…]l of these people. They shot the lunchand they shot various things up to just after lunch. I attended thelunch and I was commissioned to rush down to Pathe in town, I think itwas off Oxford St. then. The rushes being processed literally as theycame out of the camera, they were being shipped down rol[…]

Christopher Miles

[…]al sort. And we had as a sort of thriller element in it a missing videotape that had been stolen from a man on his way from Jodrell bank to talk to a newspaper editor about some strange goings on. This then turned out with a day to couch it in terms of our science report spoof, as if it's been sort […]

Alf Cooper

[…]ing and we’d got agreements signed and all that sort of business I wentand saw Bert Newton. And, mm, I also started...And start insult him?No, it was pathetic. [Laughter] All he could talk about was the fact that he’d been sent to America and just come back. Asked me if I wanted a job.34Big deal.I a[…]

Bob Jordan

[…]r, his brother was a guy in a caravan, called Bill Jordan, Billy Jordan and he helped get me into the film industry through Pathé News. It wasn't as direct as that because at the very beginning Morton Lewis, [Probably Morton M. Lewis. DS] God rest his soul, promised me […]

Sam Williams

[…] a very uncomfortable, rather high temperature. And to tell the truth, I was glad when I was able to get away from from Williamson's and start at the Pathe Laboratory which should just been built at Elstree by the British International picture Corporation Ralph Bond  8:20  this questi[…]

Frances Cockburn

[…]were both at Shepherds Bush reporting at that time.Margaret Thompson  27:30  I was an extratwo or three months that was really alone in the newsroom. Yes, Roy Drew was head of the newsreel cutting drama centre. Remember, I remembered hardly at all.Anyhow.Yes, yes. Yes.So should we have a b[…]

Bert Craik

[…] a very uncomfortable, rather high temperature. And to tell the truth, I was glad when I was able to get away from from Williamson's and start at the Pathe Laboratory which should just been built at Elstree by the British International picture Corporation Ralph Bond  8:20  this questi[…]

Stanley Watkins

[…] else. They were providing stars, providing singer and so on. But it was an interesting time. You see the first we, when we first started out, we had Pathe doing our pressing, but they couldn't make a big record. They couldn't make a big record, so we changed over to Colombia, and then they changed […]
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