[…]s vested in the BECTU History ProjectFREDDIE FRANCIS, lighting cameraman, feature film director, interviewer Alan Lawson, recorded on 24 November 1993SIDE 1, TAPE 1Alan Lawson: When and where were you born?Freddie Francis: I was born in the wilds of North London, Barnesbury, north London on December[…]
[…]Cecil here. upwith was the name of famous producer and producing company. And my mother was promptly put under contract to Cecil Hepworth. And as an aside here it's orange. Other interesting that Sidney Samuelson, do you know Sydney? Yes. Well, Sydney's father worked with Cecil Hepworth at this time[…]
[…]studio, And I thought, Oh, I'd like to work at films studio, and I'd love to work locally. So I wrote for a job. Got one a secretariat awareness, got side of ox British. After three months, they closed because the Quota Act was altered, and at that time I was being paid the princes arm of two pound […]
[…]Interview No. 25[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2003-01-24Interview Date: 1987-10-28Interviewers: Stephen PeetInterviewee: Philip LeacockTape 1, Side 1Stephen Peet: Ah, here we are, 28th October 1987. Name of interviewee, Philip Leacock, interviewed by Stephen Peet. The copyright of this record[…]
[…]That's pretty interesting for a start in those days, she was a socialist, she was married to Michael Foote for 50 years. So she she was a woman of considerable accomplishment, who had come to the BBC, at the invitation of the BBC to make a documentary film. But of course, she hadn't worked in televi[…]
[…]illy Circus. The other anecdote I’ve got about it is – I think it was the early part of the war - a man called Wendell Willkie who was a potential president of the United States, he was a Republican. He came over here obviously to get publicity and so on, he did London, and one of the things that he[…]
[…] vested in the BECTU History Project (formerly the ACTT History Project) and the right to publish some excerpts may not be allowed.Mary Harvey Tape 1 Side A1Mary Harvey Tape 1 Side ANote from transcriber: There were a couple of slight issues, the unidentified sound recordist and the not great qualit[…]
