Alan Lawson

[…]rage run of picture making. Again turned by hand. It involved, some of the stuff we shot in the studioparticularly the close ups of horse chase. Back projection didn't exist in those days and the effect was got by a long distance cut out which was pushed across the studio floor very slowly against a[…]

Sidney Cole

SIDNEY COLE, producer, director, editor, ACT pioneer, ACTT activist interviewed by Alan Lawsonc ACTT History Project 1987Tape 1 Side 1AL : Where and when viere you born?SC : I was born in Oakley St., Kennington not very far according to one report from where Charlie Chaplin was born. If the win[…]

Freddie Young

[…]g White Cargo for sound – Blackmail is known as the first British film with sound but FY suggests that it was in fact White Cargo; discussion of back projection; changes in frame sizes.00:07:30 – 00:21:45 Nurse Edith Cavell made in Hollywood, 1939; at the end of his tenure with Herbert Wilcox, they […]

BEHP Bulletin no 4 January 2021

historyproject.org.uk January 2021 Dear all, Much had been achieved during the Covid times. The Board of Management has been meeting […]

Jerome Kuehl 1931-2018

“JERRY KUEHL – media historian and long time member of the British Entertainment History Project The archive world has received […]

HP0572 Laura Mulvey – transcript

1"""HP 0572 Laura Mulvey – Transcript. NB Ums and ers have generally been omitted. Subject: Laura Mulvey[LM] Interviewer: Emma Smart […]

ARMSTRONG, Moira BECTU copy

Moira Armstrong DRAFT. Tape 1 Side A 1 This transcription was provided in 2015 by the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women […]

Peggy Gick

[…] had to go! [Chuckles.] Hmm...'cause I was thinking about back projection and things and building [in front ???]... Peggy Gick: […]
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