Teddy Darvas

[…] wonderful, typical BBC story. The Head of the North Eastern Europe Establishment was a completely humourless man. BBC establishment was always above production people, this was the way that Reith(?) didn't trust artistic people. So the man in charge of North East Europe was a man called Mr Lovejoy […]

Godfrey Jennison

[…]if they had a very big film industry is still running right now in the region.SPEAKER: F5And they put a lot into it. So that was. The Crown Film Unit Production neither. Do I want to carry on it okay. So then there were there was a vacancy in the camera department so I went over to the crown the cam[…]

Christopher Challis

[…]ushes the first time.CC: No I didn't rate being invited. I was too low down the scale. Technicolor were quite different to — if you were working on a production you went as member of the production crew. The rushes at Technicolor were still a much higher 1evel operation, just heads of department and[…]

Lionel Banes

[…]bsp;then I started on a film.Unknown Speaker  6:00  On the Yes, I started on the day that the filmUnknown Speaker  6:05  commence production.Unknown Speaker  6:07  The Hound of the basket. Oh, yes. I mean, what were your duties then?Unknown Speaker  6:14  Load[…]

Chili Bouchier – Transcript

[…] John) and Thunder Rock (1942) (Directed by Roy). Their film production company Charter Film Productions was s et up in […]

HP0323 Eileen Diss – Transcript

[…] over it; we will pay you nine pounds a week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!2!Roy!Oxley!(1899G?)!was!a!British! production!designer!at!the!BBC,!he!won!a!BAFTA!for!his!work!on!The$Portrait$of$a$Lady!in!1969.!3!Peter!Bax!was!a!production!designer!at!the!BBC,!he!worked!on!productions!including!Hamlet!(1947)!and!Macbeth!(1949).!4!Patricia!Foy!(1922G2006)!was!a!British!producer!and!dance!for!programmes!including!The$Magic$of$Dance!(1979)!and!The$Margot$Fonteyn$Story!(1989).!! I: And were you still living at home at […]

Roger Bernard Newbold Smither

[…]l was my deputy throughout my time as Head of the Film Department and Paul effectively ran the commercial side of the IWM Film Archive: he headed the Production Office with great success. He had really good relations with the film production community. He was the leading light in FOCAL, FOCAL Intern[…]

Graham Hartstone

[…]said Time went anyway, in fact it was all right. It had a bit of a dent in it which I hammered out with a brick that went on to be used for many more productions. Jim Betteridge  12:26  What were you recording to Were you always recording money or Graham Hartstone […]

Chili (Dorothy) Bouchier

[…]n (1913-1985) and Roy (1913-2001). Their films included Brighton Rock (1947) (Directed by John) and Thunder Rock (1942) (Directed by Roy). Their film production company Charter Film Productions was set up in 1937.5 Vivian Van Damm (1889-1960) ran the Windmill Theatre in London from 1932-1960 CB:[…]
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