Chris Menges

[…]ience. So I suppose I was copying what I had seen in war zones. Having said that there’s some amazing operating, there’s some amazing visual effects, special effects, and acting. Roland was no fool, he made those films. They’re his films. I mean, of course, Bruce Robinson wrote the screenplay and he[…]

Pete Murray

[…]oing the Radio Luxembourg stuff.  In 1956, he got me to go to the Shepherd’s Bush to have an interview about a new programme which was Six- Five Special.  So, I went up to get the interview and I met Josephine Douglas and Jack Good and they said, I think, it is between you and two others.&[…]

Jim Whittell

[…]12:50        JIM WHITTELL:  Also, also now digital, there’s no… as you and I will remember there used to be a special slide machine that put in individual slides for the local, and indeed Rank Screen Advertising in their heyday actually produced filmlets that […]

Peggy Gick

[…]cials now I think, oh thank God nobody asked me to do those [laughs] because I...well I wouldn't know where to start. But I think it's mostly done by special effects now anyway so [??? Interviewer speaks over].John Legard: There's so much er...yeah...computerised effects.Peggy Gick: Hmm.Did you have[…]

Gerry Humphreys

[…] run a monthly or quarterly magazine but it just so happened that this year was the 50th anniversary of the studios so they were doing something more special, and apart from all the bits and pieces of information inside, the stories of who was doing what, to mark this anniversary the paint shop came[…]

Emmanuel (Manny) Yospa

[…]ckling] Oh yes and also when he took his things of he had black - which we sort of, the labs sorted out later. One thing, in those days, any of these special effects we had to do ourselves in the camera in the labs. There was none of the electronic stuff or the marvellous things they do now.Charles […]

Carmen Dillon

[…]lendid chap, he was very much in charge of the whole thing. Very Scottish, very good. Gus.Sidney Cole: What particular moments - can you remember any special moments of any kind that stand out to you from your career?Carmen Dillon: I don't... Well I was working so much with Olivier, and so much for […]

Alfred E. (Alfie) Cox

[…] I really couldn't tell him what I thought of it as well as blatant lies.[00:31:06.890] - SPEAKER: M11 Well before becoming yours. You note your specialization. When you first started in the cutting well Joiner's re being used.[00:31:18.040] - SPEAKER: F13 Oh and John has the Premier Leagu[…]
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