Barbara K Emary

[…] about, and I get down on the floor on the other side and say no we better do it like this because how about the tail, we were being dragons, and the projectionists in the back were looking down thinking what are those two women, they must have gone crackers those two women, they didn’t know we were[…]

Gordon McCallum

[…]y-off level and you virtually had to pull the fader up three steps after you'd played an area track. So RCA had an advantage in that respect, because projectionists didn't always pull the track up, so that the film was played less favourably. But as long as it was properly played it was quite a reas[…]

Betty Batchelor

HP0056 Betty Batchelor – Transcript.Copyright is vested in the BECTU History project, recorded at Glebelands on 22rd August 1988, interviewer Sidney Cole [with Roy Fowler] SIDE 1, TAPE 1Sid Cole: Could we talk about you, you've been at Glebelands for 11 years.Betty Bachelor: Yes, I had 3 years […]

Paula Wright (Springall)

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[…]

Cyril Howard

[…].   That's a lot of money for a huge epic, I know it's 40 yeasr ago, but I doubt after it's various projections on television it's lost any money, I think you suggested it did badly, I don 't&nbs[…]

Val Guest

[…]d an attraction with the public, I wonder if you could account for what his appeal was.VG: His appeal was being the funny little man. He had enormous projection of warmth and fun and humour and bubble which was not him. It showed at least he was good in his acting on that, but I think that was what […]

Doris Martin

The copyright of this recording and transcript is vested in the BECTU History Project. Doris Martin was interviewed by Sid Cole on 16 August 1988.1. Getting started in filmSC: Your parents didn't have any connection or did they with the film business?DM: No connection at all. My father had a small p[…]

Guido Coen

GUIDO COENCopyright is invested in ACTT History Project.Guido Coen, producer and director of Twickenham Film Studios - interviewer Sid Cole .SIDE 1, TAPE 1SC: We always ask about origins, where were you born.GC : I was born in Milan, in 1915 which makes me 73, I don't feel it but its there.SC : And […]

Roy Parkinson

Roy Parkinson: BECTU Interview Part 1The copyright of this recording and transcript is vested in the BECTU History Project. Roy Parkinson was interviewed by Sid Cole in 1987.1. On his father H.B. ParkinsonRP: I was born in Surbiton, 22nd January 1916, and my father at that time was a cinema manager.[…]
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