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Roy Fowler, initiator of the ACTT (now BECTU) History Project, looks back “He’s film barmy!” Thus would my bemused Mum […]

[…] thought of actually making films at that time. But one of the uncles who had been visited on us for a while he had before the war he'd been a cinema projectionist. And although he would, had been sort of drifted into unison's work, he had managed to get permission to leave that and become one of th[…]

[…] thought of actually making films at that time. But one of the uncles who had been visited on us for a while he had before the war he'd been a cinema projectionist. And although he would, had been sort of drifted into unison's work, he had managed to get permission to leave that and become one of th[…]


NEWSLETTER OF THE BRITISH ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY PROJECT www.historyproject.org.uk Issue 3: Spring 2020 Chair’ s Welcome Dear All, I hope that […]

[…] to budgeting), and technical issues - comparing cameras and back- projection techniques. He recalls the production of many films, including […]

Introduction The History Project interview recordings were the first major oral history project of its kind to record the working […]

[…]e would be sweating like anything, trying to follow focus and trying to read with a torch on the scale on the side. And later on it got used for back projection, very successfully, at Gainsborough and The Bush too, for back projection. Because...Alan Lawson: What as shooting the plates?Leonard Harri[…]

[…], scissor, arc lamps, acetylene and lean units with a small mirror on for showing slides.Roy Fowler  6:50  Well, two questions, was it only projection equipment that they made?Speaker 1  6:57  Well, they did do some government work, which filled in parts for bombs and that IRoy F[…]

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[…]

[…]st Yorkshire called The Palace, still there, chemist shop now.  And ran that for several years using his family, two daughters and a son, as the projectionists and the cashiers etcetera. 00:01:50        And then he bought an even bigger cinema in Dover ca[…]