Barbara (Bimbi) Harris

[…]t of thing.JH: It was the RCA mixer wasn't it, the RCA effects generator that first gave us that in ITV.BH: And then a bit later on, when we had back projection, we used to have ground picture. I designed a box and to this day they call it the 'Bimbi' box [Laughter]. And people in years' time will w[…]

Keith Ewart

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Douglas Slocombe

[…]you know, all that, of course, actually was to be used later on in a much more selective way. So it did enable us to have to get very, very good back projection in this country, which is probably a sec second to none you know. So, so at least we can. We can just thank the process for that, but it's […]

Wolfgang Suschitzky

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Jack Rockett

[…]got a circle? All this.Roy Fowler: Assume it's got a circle. Let's assume that it's the front entrance.Jack Rockett: Only?Roy Fowler: I'm thinking of projectionists, of cleaners, of all the people who then went to make up the cinema itself.Jack Rockett: In those days, I can only talk about our circu[…]

Robert Beatty

This recording is the copyright of the British Entertainment History Project. The transcript is not verbatim.Interviewer Roy Fowler. Interview Date: 18th August 1988.SIDE 1, TAPE 1Roy Fowler: You've been in this country 50 years now.Robert Beatty: More now, I came over in 1937. I went to Toronto for[…]

Jack Hildyard

[…]r were you out of booth?Unknown Speaker  18:45  We weren't entirely out of booth. We used to go into a booth, if it was something like fact projection or something like that.Unknown Speaker  18:54  I don't know why, but it would have been much easier not to causeUnknown Speaker &[…]

Geoffrey MacAdam Foot

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Sheila Collins

This recording was transcribed by funds from the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, University of Leeds) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University). (2015).BECTU History Project Interview […]

John Shearman

[…]  15:18  two or three cinema coaches andUnknown Speaker  15:24  a railborne vehicle which contained the elements of 35 millimeter projection, which could be set up in any town hall. And I forget how many Charles used to do, but it was something likeUnknown Speaker  15:38 &nb[…]
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