[…]ts of things, like I worked, they were doing this special sound recording there for the Sunday Thoughts and things like that, so I learnt to, I was a projectionist really. I always say this in my biographies, that I started as a projectionist. Which I did. But not in a cinema, but I worked the proje[…]
Interviewed by Andrew Dawson, University of Greenwich, 24 August 2010 Roy, before we actually get started on the interview can you give me your date of birth please? It was the tenth of March 1927. Okay. You’re one of the founders of The ACT BECTU History Proje[…]
[…]us for screenings with a maximum membership of 150 but when a new Live Performance Theatre opened at George Square, and was being equipped with 16 mm projection kit and had a seating capacity of over 500, it was only natural that an expansion of membership drive would be possible. Working on the pri[…]
[…]nternet.com.Alan Lawson 0:03 The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU to history project.Robert Newman, known as Ted cinema projectionist for the Odeon and rank circuit cinemas, in the Birmingham area. Interviewer Alan Lawson, recorded on the 17th of November 1993. side one[…]
Interviewed by Andrew Dawson, University of Greenwich, 14 February 2011Okay Roy first of all could you give me your date of birth please?Fifteenth of August 1939. Almost the day that war broke out.Ah. And if you could start really right at the beginning. Family background, parents, siblings, where w[…]
BECTU History ProjectInterview no: 578Interviewee: Diane Tammes [IMDb/BFI spelling]Interviewers: Nicky North, Elaine Burrows – not verbally identified Cameraman: Graham Whittaker[ph] [G]Date: No date is given for this interviewDuration: 1:23:42COPYRIGHT: No use may be made of any interview[…]
[…] up when you leave school. And course, everybody was going to do this, that and the other. Of course, when it come to me, I said I would like to be a projectionist as such, because I would have said to know what the world was called projectionist in those days, but I want to be a chap that showed th[…]
[…] follow me." So I went up the stairs, into the projection room. The theatre had just been rebuilt and re-opened […]
[…] LawsonInterviewee: David Robson[Tape 1, Side 1]The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. David Robson, one time cinema projectionist, television telecine operator, recording engineer, one of the pioneers of the BECTU History Project. Interviewer Alan Lawson. Recorded o[…]
[…] in cinemas owing to conscription led to women entering the projection box during the earlier conflict.[7] While acknowledging that ‘[l]ady […]
