Peter Graham Scott

[…]hat was just a cheap thing, directed by somebody called John Harlow. Er, we (laughs) we said ‘Harlow by name, Harlow by nature!’. He was a nothing; a production manager – they just got him in quickly. And then, erm…I heard again that there was a film called ‘Kipps’ being made at Shepherd’s Bush, and[…]

Frederick Bentham

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[…]

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[…]

Gerry Anstiss

[…] was And I was taken off for a two year apprenticeship at Rock studios. It was six months, sound six months, camera, six months editing six months in production. And at the end of the two years, I was asked what department I wanted to go iand I chose camera department.Alan Lawson  3:31  Th[…]

Elizabeth Furse (née Wolpert)

[…]ean was, but Reed was not. Reed was always...I thought he’d been an editor.No, he'd been an actor, then he was a stage manager and then he was in the production department, and not only ...But he always knew what he was doing.Yes. Right.You know. Very calmly and very quietly and very clearly, and th[…]

Lindsay Anderson

[…]tunity or luck. So really knowing nothing I said alright.So I went up to Wakefield. I met Dermod and visited the works and I found I had taken on the production of a film. Interestingly I think that the Sutcliffes had approached at least a couple of documentary companies, Film Centre and that kind o[…]

Sam Williams

[…]d to pass that knowledge on. And although one might not like the attitude of the or the antics of the American industry towards this industry, from a production point of view, when asked do I feel be honest about it and say that those Americans as a team did a very good job, and some of the really e[…]
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