HP0190 David Attenborough – Transcript

[…] copyright is vested in the BECTU History Project. David Attenborough, television director, producer. Interviewer Norman Swallow, recorded 8 April 1991 […]

Charles W. Smith

[…]greed it had to include a movie theater, which they named the Telekinema. And this was to show the best of technical achievements of British film and television, and this started a whole new episode in the cinema. The first thing was that Raymond Spottiswoode was brought back to England to take[…]

Alf Cooper

[…]e Percy Hindmarsh....Yes.He used to be the, the drive, well, what Technicolor called the drive maintenance but in the actual fact he was the printing engineer and all that kind of thing.Yes.Bill Norris was the, was the maintenance engineer for all the other stuff. In fact Bill Norris and I, that was[…]

HP0520 Betty Willingale – Transcript

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

Peggy Gick

[…] and then later Here Come the Double Deckers (1970) for television. Gick also worked on a number of post-war films, […]

Ian Rutter

[…] around the world, here, there and everywhere Nick Gilbey  0:52  I see so there was, there wasn't any family connection with television, or Ian Rutter  0:56  not at all. No, I got into television by accident. We lived in pinner, and I had won a techn[…]

Charles Picken

[…]My Cinema LifeCHAPTER ONE - MY FORMATIVE YEARSFrom my earliest childhood the magic of the Cinema had been firmly entrenched in my life. In those days television had not yet begun its inexorable march into the living rooms of the nation and the weekly visit, or in my fortunate case more often than th[…]

Neville Wortman

[…]ervice and at that time the BBC … it was all in black and white of course … the editor of a local newspaper had got a contract to do short stories on television and so I illustrated those.  I did some illustrations for television then.  Not drawing live but just simply illustrating his sto[…]

Hazel Allen

[…]sp;35:50  the headliners must have.Unknown Speaker  35:55  Just I mean, they there wasn't any music hall there wasn't there wasn't any television. You just went around theUnknown Speaker  36:01  circuit. And they were very fortunate in those days that they got one good act. […]

Betty Willingale

This recording was transcribed by funds from the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, University of Leeds) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University). (2015).BECTU History ProjectInterview n[…]
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