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[…]r economic you are. Mary Orrom 49:33 We always went on holidays every year. So it, I mean, I was technically the company's secretary. But that didn't really mean anything very much. But it was a question of being supportive. Mary Orrom 49:55 I al[…]
Christine WhittakerHistory Project 1As a rare insight into the wonderfully diverse career Christine Whittaker carved out for herself in the world of archive – and beyond – we re-visit an interview she gave to the History Project eight years ago in Puglia, Italy. Her ‘inquisitors’ were Sue Malden and[…]
[…]called Peter Marek. He joined it when [it was] the time the Hungarian revolution and he left the country. But because his uncle was company secretary of ABC Pictures he got the prime jobs and I was just left … sweeping the floor most of the time. Learning how to repair cameras wh[…]
[…]rs and spend too much time in pubs and things. And then my sister, who had come over to Britain in the mid 60s, was working as personal assistant and secretary to an animator called Bob Godfrey, and one day she said to me, Well, if you're not really doing anything, do you want a job as a runner? And[…]
[…] the scripts for a couple of days, he then carted me round to see all sorts of ministers and he said ‘You, you must understand that the’, to the Home Secretary he took me, he doesn’t speak in English so Sir Alan did it all but he said ‘the censor must not lose face’, so I had to play those games.Yes[…]
[…]ement, and 1969 it was actually made for European conservation. Yeah, which was 1969. But when we started, the producer Humphrey swingler said to his secretary, keep any cutting maker maker combat population of any cuttings you see in the press, on the subject of pollution, or environment and what w[…]
[…]hrough this like that. The technicians they were marvellous. And we had a two week break. And then I did 26 in 26 weeks. And the staff was myself, my secretary who also acted as a PA and the floor manager, just the three of us and even Armchair Theatre. I directed only some of them. There were other[…]
INTERVIEW WITH JULIE HARRIS (COSTUME DESIGNER) The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project.Interviewer: Roy LansfordRecorded on the 31st August 2000. RL: Right then Julie, if we could start from the very beginning, from when you were born.JH: I was born in 1921, which[…]