[…]y Tape 1, Side 1Ralph Bond : This is a tape-recorded interview with Maurice Elvey, who is certainly one of the pioneers of the British film industry. Even the doyen of the British film industry. During his lifetime, Maurice has made at least 150 films. Maurice, I gather you were born in 1887, a[…]
[…]ement too that always went on, did it not.BH: And little films of course.3. SexismBH: When I went on cameras, I was very resented. I was sent to Coventry, the boys so resented me they wouldn't tell me a thing.RF: Let's analyse that now because it's almost inconceivable that a woman would come up aga[…]
[…]y failed because they came up against the State examinations for the first time, so my father said "I can't send you back. He said just come back and try in the high school and if you don’t like it, well. Well there wasn't any hope of going back so I had to go back again to the senior school. So I g[…]
[…]s. And the other spot. That's right. Yeah.Alf Cooper  19:34  They put me on my trainers becauseJim Gorrie  19:38  we migrated I'm trying to. Well, that's where I met Oliver. And all that lot you say? And so we we went on whale Island, which is the biggest gunnery school in the wo[…]
[…]re, yes.Jack Rockett: It cost very little but it took a fortune. I mean, we had terrific queues everywhere for it.Sidney Cole: In the part of the country you were concerned with - how many cinemas all together would the chain have? Any idea?Jack Rockett: Now when are we talking? Because it gradually[…]
[…]f the four children in the family as naval pensioner, amongst other things, I forgotten what the others were. And my mother was the daughter of a country family in Scotland who subsequently came down to England to live with a brother who had taken up a farm near Leamington Lemington Spa. So we're a […]
[…]nd your family background? Yes,Speaker 3  0:49  certainly. Born in London, in Finchley, not very far from here, 1919. Brought up in the country in Bucks, until going to public school, which was in Hampstead, again, not very far from here, in at university, college school, and having receiv[…]
[…]dit in 1935 for The Mystery of the Marie Celeste. She joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service during WWII and subsequently returned to the film industry, working for Rank and Hammer studios among others. Her final film was One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975). SUMMARY: This interview, conducted b[…]
[…]ls or digs or whatever you could find wherever you ended the day, because of railway making, railway films, necessarily involves moving about the country of great deals. Did you have a budget for them?Unknown Speaker  6:16  We had an overall budget. What do you mean a departmental function[…]
[…]d I got very interested in outside broadcasts. And I thought to myself one gets around a bit with outside broadcasts, that�s the thing to see the country. So I went on outside broadcasts as a second man. We covered an area from Whitby across to Blackpool roughly and up to the border. We covered all […]
