Jim Peters

[…] called Tony Polini, who was a Lighting Electrician in STV and we were on News one night and we got a call to go up to Bridge of Orchy to film lories stranded in the snow so that's up in Rannoch Moor, which is quite high up and windy and flat and gets a lot of snow so we went up to, I mean we had a […]

Dicky Leeman

[…] drive down from Wood Green to the Savoy in the Strand, really terrified me. Rodney Giesler: He came over during […]

Joan Kemp-Welch

[…] there and enthusiastic. He then went out to Hollywood and became a great lighting designer in Hollywood.Roy Fowler: Yes, he directed one or two films out there, didn't he?Joan Kemp-Welch: Yes and he died, oh, I suppose about twenty years ago, didn't he?Roy Fowler: I can't remember wh[…]

Donald Wilson

[…] I'd been writing comic poems for the paper as well for years, two to three years every week. And so he gave me the songs and I took them back to the strand Palo Santo, one dinner night. At night, and I wrote four songs that night, and took them down the next day. And he liked them, bought them. And[…]

Carol Owens

[…]es, so you've got opportunities to act on small things in between times but I started acting on a regular basis and in ’84, ‘85 I think, and I'd been strand editor on on “Timewatch” and “Bookmark” under Executive Producer Tim Gardam.And I got made up to editor I think in ‘85 and one of the films tha[…]

Dudley Lovell

[…]ol, first of all in Clapham and Aristotle road. And later I went to school in Babylon and Bonneville road. From biovar Road, I went to a place called strand School, which is on Brixton Hill, right opposite theUnknown Speaker  1:21  prison.Dudley Lovell  1:22  And that's a good sc[…]

Dicky Leeman

[…]t was frightening. Of course you know he got killed in a crash eventually. But it was terrifying, this drive down from Wood Green to the Savoy in the Strand, really terrified me.Rodney Giesler: He came over during the War and stayed didn't he?Dicky Leeman: Yes. But he was one of a family, acrobatic,[…]

Philip Leacock

[…]ack with film and edit it in England?Philip Leacock: Yes. And I was - I don't think I was involved when we came back. I had got leave of absence from Strand Films and when I got back Basil Wright and John Taylor asked me to join Realist, so I went to Strand to apologise - and was only to learn that […]

Elaine Schreyeck

[…]father was a hotelier, so we lived wherever he was working, he was a hotelier at The Washington Hotel in Curzon Street, and then at the Howard in The Strand. And so of course, until my parents were divorced I was, always went with them and lived in these hotels. And then finally, at the age of four […]

Sam Williams

[…]am Williams  2:31  developing the the framer he was called a framer he had a frame that had metal pins that are top and bottom are separate strands a frame these film onto their  placed in the cradle the film places no film onto there with a drawing pin and then wound the film round t[…]
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