Fred Tomlin

[…] the office you see, as the unit steward, and the production manager said, "What are we going to do about […]

Harry Fowler

[…]n the Thames by Jack Warner.” Now every job that comes up is abroad. Shall we come back, because I’ve got a good story about an American, a Hollywood production?McG: Go on, tell us.HF: Well how it came up, Maude Spector again, who put me in Pickwick Papers, she said “I’ve got one for you, a nice job[…]

John Shirley

[…]re, but it was the very first of the independent frame pictures. And it was only really a tryout for independent praying because they were going into production at Pinewood with a very big programme for those days. And that was wonderful. So independent prime is was really just back projection. A li[…]

Peter Dimmock

[…]ething about OB’s that for a lot of us who had flown in the war because I think without sounding big-headed about it, I think that outside broadcasts production work demanded the same kind of quick thinking that flying aeroplane does, I think it’s something to do with reactions that you must have a […]

Bessie Bond (née Span)

[…]eadful.Q Anyway, we are back to the end of the second world war. Just before we go on about ACT, did you ever get connected yourself with any kind of production work or..15A Oh, when we were are at Blackheath, the GPO, I was sometimes asked to do a commentary and two camera boys - well, - they were […]

Transcript – Jean Anderson

[…] an English film and television director. He worked as a production assistant on Night Mail (1936) before directing feature films including […]

Barrie Merritt

[…]imation people hang around with ponen, Dean and left. So I arrived just after that period. And Marina was obviously the major director there. And the production managers a guy called Harry Pousti, who had no film background, presumably, in fact, I think he came from a travel agency. So I remember, b[…]

Peter Lamont

Peter Lamont Production Designer Interviewer: Paul Frith (PF) Date: 28/07/2018 Total Length: 01:25:07 PF: This is an interview with Peter Lamont, 24 July 2018. I just want to thank you Peter for taking part in this. So just to start, perhaps you could tell us a little bit ab[…]

David Elstein

[…]Michael Peacock, John Cleese, Roy Godfrey. We made it look like enormous pool of talent – actually these were all the films I could find. Independent production sector didn’t really exist, kept at arms length by BBC & IBA. But it made an impact on Leon, who persuaded Whitelaw to move off ITV2. W[…]

Jim Whittell

[…]p;     JIM WHITTELL:  I think more fundamentally as so often happens Rank had taken over the largest cinema distribution and production company in Holland, and having taken it over left it with the original owner to run it.  Very, very naïve.  And within a few mont[…]
Scroll to Top