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Daphne Shadwell was born in December 1927 in Wandsworth, London, England, UK. She is a director and producer, known for Do Not Adjust Your Set (1967), Object Z (1965) and Pardon My Genie (1972).Her father was Charles Shadwell Musician . her mother was a singer and the pair toured the country performing together.Three sisters John Sheila and Hazel. First played as Snow White at School in Wembley 1937 Sister Hazel was working in the Variety Department at Aeolian Hall, heard of a vacancy going for a secretary  working in the Administrative Department of the Near East Service, looked after the Arabs, the Turks and the Persians out in the countryside.Time for me to move on to 200 Oxford Street in the BBC and working for  Forces Favourites a job called Recorded Programmes Bookings,Joined  the BBC Ariel Players and  was busy with their productions.Evening classes at the City Lit and did cookery and drama at the Stanhope Institute 1948.Production secretary in the Variety dept BBC 1950. Married John Hamilton.Joined associated Rediffusion in 1954 personal assistant to Lloyd Williams. Worked on opening night of ITV 1955 September.On to No Hiding Place, the  new flagship drama’Worked on AD Mags for Associated Rediffusion with Mick & Montmorency. Then on to Light Entertainment Sexton Blake. AR lost the franchise DS moved to Thames. 1968 Did the Matt Monroe show. Then up to Granada doing Chelsea at Nine.1962 Stars and Garters and  The Sooty Show..!963 The Beatles on Ready Steady Go. With Kathy McGowan. On to Children’s TV for Thames Directing. Helped with News and current affairs programmes. Back  to Children Rainbow. At Teddington.1980’s inserts for This is Your Life. Left Thames to Sky TV. Eng inserts work directing.  see also #93.

M.R.Watkins – the widow of an Englishman (born 1888) who worked for Bell Telephone laboratories in New York City and was one of the Vitaphone development team. Knew Sam and Harry Warner – installed the Westrex sound system at B and D studios (also Billancourt Studios in Paris, and in Madrid) and designed the sound installation at Denham Studios. ‘Nothing of great moment but a charming lady indeed.’Married to Stanley Watkins, Chief Engineer Vitaphone. See interview number 727  with Stanley recorded in 1970  behp0159-molly-watkins-summary[Transcribed from Manny Yospa’s brief notes]M.R.Watkins – the widow of an Englishman (born 1888) who worked for Bell Telephone laboratories in New York City and was one of the Vitaphone development team. Knew Sam and Harry Warner – installed the Westrex sound system at B and D studios (also Billancourt Studios in Paris, and in Madrid) and designed the sound installation at Denham Studios. ‘Nothing of great moment but a charming lady indeed.’[See also Interview No 727]

Arthur was a miovie stills photographer  from 1935 to c 1970, with experience at Denham, Pinewood, MGM etc., and worked on many big films including The Drum, The Four Feathers , Bridge Over the River Kwai, Kes and Blow-up.

Adam Alexander Dawson was born in  Edinburgh , son of Alexander Bashall Dawson and Aileen Twentyman Smithers. Among his films are “Knight Without Armour” (1937), “The Conquest of the Air” (1940), “The Glass Mountain” (1949), the Dr Who episodes "Spearhead from Space" (1970), “A Place in the Country” (1967), The World of Coppard” (1968), “The World His Challenge” (1967), “The Highland Jaunt” (1968).Adam Dawson is a descendant of both the Dawson whisky family of St Magdalenes, Linlithgow and the Gillon whisky family of Leith.Adam was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Stowe School, and The Queen's College, Oxford where he was President of the Oxford University Film Society. He joined the Royal Berkshire Regiment and from 1942 to 1946 he edited and produced many training films for the Army while in India. He subsequently worked for Nettlefold Studios and for the BBC as a Film Editor. While working for the BBC he edited a number of productions, including Z-cars, Dr Who and The Benny Hill Show, although he refused to have his name in the credits of the latter

Sidney Gilliat (15 February 1908 – 31 May 1994) was an English film director, producer and writer.He was born in the district of Edgeley in Stockport, Cheshire. In the 1930s he worked as a scriptwriter, most notably with Frank Launder on The Lady Vanishes (1938) for Alfred Hitchcock, and its sequel Night Train to Munich (1940), directed by Carol Reed. He and Launder made their directorial debut co-directing the home front drama Millions Like Us (1943). From 1945 he also worked as a producer, starting with The Rake's Progress, which he also wrote and directed. He and Launder made over 40 films together, founding their own production company Individual Pictures. While Launder concentrated on directing their comedies, most famously the four St Trinian's School films, Gilliat showed a preference for comedy-thrillers and dramas, including Green for Danger (1946), London Belongs to Me (1948) and State Secret (1950).

BIOGRAPHY:1930s - Night Mail (1936) sound recordist, memories of GPO Film Unit. Joins British Movietone News - descriptions of routine newsreel work.1940s - War correspondent - Far East and Mediterranean.1950s - Twentieth Century Fox - Short films and documentaries. Films for the Conservative Party. A Queen is Crowned (1953). Film for Princess Ashraf of Iran1960 - 70s Decline of Newsreel - freelance work Norman Fisher was a British  newsreel cameraman, a war correspondent and worked for British Movietone News in GB, France, Mediterranean, Singapore, Australia, Italy and Greece 1936-1945Audiocassette for 18 Oct 1989 and 6 Dec 1989 were self-recorded by Norman Fisher.

Apprentice to S Brown Camera and projectors and arc lamps in 1922 . Had to sign and agree to not join a trades union. Joined Pathe Freres in Wardour street 1926. As maintenance man on developing machines.Joined Kingston & Lyles? in 1929 working on early sound equipment.Charles Vinten Wardour Street on cameras .Then to British Acoustics in early thirties. With British Acoustics until retirement

Henry Seward started as a pageboy for a doctor and then a luxury flats company. RAF in WW2 . To Technicolour in chemicals department until retirement in 1978, Great detail about the mixing of chemicals for the Technicolour process. Retired to the Union home Glebelands

In the 1960’s and 1970’s cinematographer Keith Ewart was much in demand directing many famous commercials - with a young Ridley Scott often working as his art director. Eventually, he decided to construct a small studio centre, and Ewart Studios (with two main spaces, Studio A and Studio B) opened in the south London district of Wandsworth in 1968.The studios really came into their own from 1982, when Channel 4 began and independent producers used them for shows such as “Vic Reeves' Big Night Out” and Jonathan Ross' early shows, including “The Last Resort”. However, in 1983 Limehouse Studios opened in Docklands. The smaller studio there was a very similar in size to Studio A, and so was in direct competition. Then, in early-1989, the government allowed ITV companies to sell ‘spare’ time in their studios to independent production companies. Now facing even stiffer competition, Ewart decided to sell the studios, and they were acquired by the Capital Radio group. (Tragically, Keith Ewart died of a brain tumour in July 1989.)Renamed Capital Studios, they attracted sufficient work to remain in business even when, from the early-1990s, competition increased when the BBC’s studios were also marketed to independents.

b. London 1921    d. Buckinghamshire    2001 CINEMATOGRAPHER.   Began at 17 as a camera  assistant. Worked on several films during WW2 as well as serving in the Fleet Air Arm. Camera operator from 1947 at Ealing and MGM Elstree.  Then on Disney pictures at Pinewood.  Additional photography on other major pictures until 1987.DB