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[…] group of workers in the British film and television industry set about collecting and archiving the oral testimonies of retired […]

Roy Fowler

[…]u what but… Well, Alan Lawson for example became an absolute treasure in terms of organisation. Mm, he was constantly trotting back and forth with cassettes and things like that and without Alan I don’t think anyone would have bothered to perform those functions.  I was going to ask you ab[…]

Chris Strachan

[…] Threadgall  23:15  think on one occasion, they abandoned one show, and people wanted to come back in. And so they had two or two sets of audience, that's right, sort of like, yeah. So they had about what, 400 400 500 people, oh, yes, more than that. What was the original capacit[…]

Mike Hodges

[…]s  0:00  This is a recording of an interview with Mike Hodges, recorded by Rodney Giesler on the third of March 1998, in Blandford Forum Dorset for the BECTU Oral History Archive, Reel oneRodney Giesler  0:22  Right So Mike, can you tell me when you were born and a bit about your[…]

John Turner

[…]and that sort of thing and we were not too well off. But he was a big Mason actually, and I went to the Masonic school in Bushey, which was a great asset to me. I was there until I was sixteen. They were very autocratic there as far as jobs went and the head master said, you know, "Oh, you'll presum[…]

Harry Manley

[…]0:34:26 Universal labs came in as a rival to CFS; 16mm wasn’t considered ‘professional’; they had very few personal customers but a lot of film units set up for companies who believed they could produce their own industrial films; British Transport Films started on 16mm Kodak reversal in 1953/4 for […]
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