[…]very interesting”, - Neal Salmon, that’s it – “well get yourself an organ and fix it up and I want you to go to the Lyons Corner House, in Coventry Street”. So, I thought, the only organ available at that time was the Hammond, just getting known, but I’d heard a whisper that Comptons were maki[…]
[…]st extraordinary thing, my father-in-law to be, as he was then, said to me - he was a very conventional, a very nice man, but a very conventional country doctor, and he said, "Have you thought of going into films?" And I was absolutely staggered at the idea, and even more staggered that he should ha[…]
[…]village my father always chaired the Conservative party meetings and my mother the Labour party meetings. My mother had come from the Keir Hardie country in Ayrshire and knew a great deal about what happened to the workers there. My father’s father had been a lighthouse keeper and indeed had somethi[…]
[…]bsp;sometime before they got out. In fact one of the staff with John Mowlens became rather famous, also in thefilm industry eventually, was Ron Haig, he was an electrician on Mowlens. &nb[…]
[…]e love of it.Speaker 2 9:02 But were southern region based making films, when, when British Transport?Speaker 1 9:12 I'm just trying to think Erwin, what can join us when ISpeaker 2 9:15 joined British Transport films on april 1951 and what can was there then, I m[…]
[…]nal in that way. And he'd recently died. But he was exceptional, the other man that was humorous, gregarious and invited me to his cottage in the country for the weekend. Because I had nothing to do nothing to do and too immature a virgin and had no girlfriend. He invited me to his cottage at the in[…]
[…]history.SC: Did you take a degree.CC: I did, I actually passed. After I was at Oxford, I was wandering around wondering what my life was going to be, trying different things, seeing what it was like being a journalist and so on. Then I suddenly thought, to hell with it all I'm interested in films.SC[…]
[…]off Labram 8:10 as things worked out? The way that my career has gone on? I'm sure it made absolutely no difference whatsoever, this industry seems to value people for what they can do what they have done rather than what they some piece of paper thinks they ought to have done.Interviewe[…]
[…]th Barbara Emary, in her home, 5th July 1988Interviewer Bob AllenSIDE 1, TAPE 1BA : Perhaps you could tell us when you first ca me into the film industry, how you got interested in filmmaking, what lead you - into it.BE: The most interesting thing is that as a teenager I was all against films, I nev[…]
[…]he 15th June, 1988. We're still at Glebelands and we're about to talk to Ella Mallett, who has a long and distinguished connection with our film industry. I trust this isn't too un-gentlemanly to ask you, but may I ask when and where you were born?Ella Mallett : I was born in London - English mother[…]
