Michael Colomb

Alan Lawson  0:05  The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Michael Colomb, BBC TV sound engineer, dubbing mixer and director of better sound of Endell Street interview. Alan Lawson, recorded on the 12th of June 1995. side one you know, first and foremost, wh[…]

Sarah Erulkar (de Normanville)

[…]e don’t pay less than twenty-five’. [laughter] Lovelyto go home and say, I’m getting twenty-five pounds a week! It’s crazy, lovely.He was a good producer.Oh, he was. He was a nice man.That was World Wide then wasn’t it?Yes. Strangely â€“ just to jump for a moment â€“ I made a lo[…]

Barbara (Bimbi) Harris

NB The full transcript is available as a PDF file by cicking on the link labelled BEHP 0100T. What follows below is a thematically chaptered extract.Barbara Harris: BECTU Interview Part 1 (1989)The copyright of this recording and transcript is vested in the BECTU History Project. Barbara Harris[…]

Peter Proud

[…]old of Cavalcanteand I found myself in the most minute office as an independent producer.The pattern leading to the plan was that Launder and Gilliatt, Lean and Lean, Powell a[…]

Bill Mason

Copyright ACTT History Project, Bill Mason, film director, film producer, recorded on 4th October 1987, interviewer Alan LawsonAL: Where were you born.BM: I was born in Edgebaston, which is the snob part of Birmingham on 9th November 1915 .AL : What kind of schooling did you receive.BM: I went to on[…]

Bill Girdlestone

[…]became an accountant with British Transport and then he became a producer for British Transport and then he finished up with Ogilvy & Mather as a producer.Fowler/Lawson: I knew him then. It was Benson & Mather then, Ogilvy, Benson & Mather.Bill Girdlestone: And I played for the[…]

Charles Picken

Charles Picken  -  My Cinema LifeCHAPTER ONE - MY FORMATIVE YEARSFrom my earliest childhood the magic of the Cinema had been firmly entrenched in my life. In those days television had not yet begun its inexorable march into the living rooms of the nation and the weekly visit, or in my fort[…]
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