Tony Bridgewater

Tony Bridgewater Side 1  Alan Lawson  0:03  The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Tony Bridgewater, senior BBC Television engineer, pioneer television engineer. Interviewer, Norman Swallow, and Alan Lawson recorded on the 28th of June 19[…]

Charles Picken

[…]-researched book COME AND SEE by Michael Chaplin. The Scott family legacy now encompasses Sir Ridley Scott and (sadly deceased too early) his brother Tony both of whom would make major contributions to box office successes in the last decades of the 20th Century. During Year One I started intro[…]

Julia Cave

[…]oroughly enjoyed it and learned a lot about film; which is what I set out to do, and about studios and scientist and so on.  And about that time Tony Essex, came and asked me if I would work on a series about the First World War, and my job would be finding the veterans who fought in that war, […]

Lindsay Anderson

[…]professionally finished, and I had taken responsibility for it.Then, about that time the BFI did sponsor some films and they sponsored Karel Reisz andTony Richardson, who wanted to make a film about a jazz club, Momma Don 't Allow, Wood Green, the Chris Barber band. And we ended up, by chance or des[…]

Derek Threadgall

[…]in these sort of experimental areas at the time. At the time you had what was called the Free Cinema Movement with Lindsay Anderson and Carl rice and Tony with all these pictures to be exciting at the time it's all very basic. Technologically it was so simple and people just making films all over th[…]

Harry Fowler

[…] day I have a bath. Lunch time, you go for a lunch, I have a bath, to revitalise myself for the afternoon work.” “So”, I said “Lovely.” So, I said to Tony Newley who was in one of the films, “Poor old Andreas”. So, we brought a banger, fireworks. It was near firework day, and I looked through the ke[…]

Cecil Buckland

[…]o the Think-Tank in London and I can't remember his name. Do you remember the name of the guy who went to London, the Think-Tank? I: That wasn't Tony Firth, was it? R: Tony Firth! Tony Firth, that's right. I remember him, yes, but they were all, David Johnston was a good Controller. David […]

Pat Jackson

[…] was a lovely film, it certainly wasn't a great film. It was a Jack Whittingham story; an original story of his called 'The Birthday Present.' It was Tony Britton's first...John Legard: 'The Birthday Present' of course! Yes.Pat Jackson: ...with Sylvia Syms. Yes, that was fun to do. A very good story[…]
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