[…]and that was our meeting. And since 1936 we worked together in various levels, mind you. We did not continue when there was a crisis in the film industry and animated films just before the war. She worked then for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue and I worked for various comic magazines as illustrator.&nbs[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]I wanted to be a journalist, and things were pretty bad at the time, but I eventually got a job on a trade paper has nothing to do with the film industry and about the building industry. I didn't like it very much. It was rather dull, but it was a foot and I was earning a few bob, but I subsequently[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] to go to work at Pathé Frères? 00:01:09​ADOLPH:​Well when I left school I, I was uh, um liking about the ci-, I liked the cinema [???] but I’ll try to [???], but fortunately one of the, my father’s [coughs] colleague was a re-, relation to the di-, to the director of the, the Pathé factory in […]
[…] a series called Stryker of the Yard - [chuckles] I'm trying to think of the star in it - Bruce […]
[…] but I don't like to remember them very much. I try and forg et, but I suppose the experiences I […]
[…] had to - perhaps to be cut. On occasions we'd try to get it for an extra week. But even […]
