Bessie Bond (née Span)

[…]when it was, 1954, when ITV started, were you connected with this?A No, Paddy Leitch joined as an extra organiser so he was assigned to that. But whentelevision first started we didn’t have an organiser exclusively for television but I remember going to Wembley Studios and the woman there, she was t[…]

John Aldred

[…] he became involv ed with the British Kinematograph Sound and Television Society (B SKTS ) and was involved in training […]

John Aldred

[…]he same pitch. Around that time I remember seeing many good films at morning matinees including Broadway Melody of 1929 which I saw again recently on television, Sunny Side Up, Flying Down to Rio, oh and a drama about an airship rescue over 4 the North Pole called Dirigible. At the same time I […]

John Shearman

[…]ightest of them in London, and he told me that every one of these Iraqis that we'd trained were still employed somewhere in the world, in the film or television business. I'm really proud of that. And he got a wonderful job. They made some moviesUnknown Speaker  20:56  too. Did you have a […]

HP0440 Susan Crockford – Transcript

[…] by the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, […]

Sue (Susan) Crockford

[…]me of interviewee Susan Crockford DRAFT Tape 1 Side AThis transcription was provided in 2015 by the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, Leeds University) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co- Investigator, De Montfort Uni[…]

Maurice Carter

[…]d acompletely different setting, like The Verger, and Three Fat Women of Antibes, The Kite.Roy Fowler: I suppose material such as that now we find on television which is I guesswhy it isn't made on film any more.Maurice Carter: I suppose so.Roy Fowler: It was all very literate and middle class.Mauri[…]
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