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[…] of Edgar, editor with the National Film Board of Canada under her maiden name, Lily, interviewers John!Legard [JL] and Gloria […]

[…] got it, and arrived just in time to work ( uncredited) on Alfred Hitchcock’s Blackmail, ‘Britain’s first talking picture’. (In […]

[…] the National Film Theatre is running a season of films under the heading’Girls Like Us: British Women and WWII Cinema’. […]

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[…]fficult position and, I think, just became a tarnished brand so, clearly, something had to be done. I: Now, before you arrived and got your feet under the desk and got full sight of the books and knew what you were dealing with, from your position back then what did you sense the issues were at[…]

 Interviewed by Andrew Dawson, University of Greenwich, 24 August 2010  Roy, before we actually get started on the interview can you give me your date of birth please?  It was the tenth of March 1927.  Okay. You’re one of the founders of The ACT BECTU History Proje[…]

[…] in 1941, partly I think because Oxford was considered a very safe place to be born at that time, but then I grew up for the rest of the war in the country and did not go back to London with my family until 1946.00.53 The first film I ever saw, strangely enough, was Nanook of the North which I saw q[…]

[…] down in the London area. I think at this stage I would have been influenced in my career by my late father, Leslie Faber - I think it might be opportune to tell you a little bit about him because he was quite a character, certainly in the industry. He had a pretty chequered career before the war. I[…]