Pat Jackson

[…] and would not approve the money for...John Legard: Ironically.Pat Jackson: ...'Now or Never'. And the reason was that Herbert Morrison, who was Home Secretary, I think at the time... was frightened that the Labour party would be accused of using film as Goebbels used it for political propaganda pur[…]

Frances Cockburn

[…]but unlike most departments were quite content to let their Information Officers deal with all this. Margaret Thatcher was, was Minister of Education Secretary of State then. And she insisted on coming to see this. And whether her information officer had not briefed her, and I suspect he had, or whe[…]

Alf Cooper

[…], he was the Managing Director and he used to spend half, half, what was it...?Kalmus or Knight?No, no, no, no. When he had the, when he had the, the secretary that had a mink, amink cover on her toilet. Mm... [Pause] Originally we had two joint ManagingDirectors, Oates and Fasnak [ph 457] Fasnak [p[…]

Elaine Schreyeck

[…]ording.Tape 1 Side A.The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Side One. So, Elaine Schreyeck, Continuity and Production Secretary, you have it.Oh good.Alright. Now, you've read the thing, so we start off with the, you know, conventional background sort of things, when y[…]

Edward Dryhurst

[…]ot two or three - he sort of leaned forward when he walked, as if he was going to fall over if you touched him at the back. And he had his office and secretary, and I don't know really what he did. How he got into the film business is a mystery to me, but he did. He was cricket mad, if you were a ma[…]

Reg Sutton

[…]Reg Sutton: No that was Gerald Sanger.Roy Fowler: Oh I beg your pardon.Reg Sutton: Now Gerald Sanger was editor, now he was Lord Rothermere's private secretary at the Daily Mail, also a director of the Daily Mail and a shareholder. And he was put into Movietone by the Daily Mail as editor.Roy Fowler[…]
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