[…]ften saw it on the credits: Miss So-and-So’s costumes by So-and-So, didn’t you?Yeah, absolutely. Yes.Anyhow, your first brush with the film industry, going to Denholm, what did that do to you?Well, I thought it was lovely. And one used to see Maggie Furse, who was working with Roger Furse on&nb[…]
[…]that everyone after half a sentence says, where do you come from? I think I must have heard it a thousand times. But England is my, I cant say my country, my adopted country, my children are very English so it's been good, it's been good.RF: 1940, that's 60 years agoLK: YesRF: One last question abou[…]
[…]ered for the Army, in fact, I thinkI was the first person in the Time Life Organization ever to join the Army. And I went overseas,Went with the infantry to Dunkirk and I came back out of Dunkirk and I was commissioned and,having got my commission, I was then posted to Gibraltar. At that time my fat[…]
[…]ish Film Commission, at 70, Baker Street in London, and the interviewee is no less than Miss Erica Masters, a legendary production person in our industry, sadly not living in this country any longer. I have the pleasure of doing the interview, my name is Sydney Samuelson and I am the British Film Co[…]
[…]Berman: At that time I was living still in Hampstead, or maybe my parents hadmoved to Golders GreenAlan Lawson: That was a tripMonty Berman: Yes. I'm trying to thinkAlan Lawson: If you didn't have your car you went presumably to Waterloo.Monty Berman: No, I went to Richmond, the train to Richmond. I[…]
[…]ed do is flick a switch andyou’re on to the optical track. Well of course they didn’t know that, spent ten minutesChristine Collins Page 7Tape 17trying to mend this magnetic track. Anyway, so that was one of the things I remember about that. But a lot of the early programmes were solid music be[…]
[…]four one two three four three two. Okay so yeah.SPEAKER: M4I was born in England in 1928. My father's a South African he was specializing in this country as a doctor. My mother being English and I went back to South Africa in the early 30s when my father went back to become a radiologist in fact Sou[…]
[…]urice Askew, who was the dubbing mixer there - and a very find dubbing mixer too. [break in recording]... You know, just when you started in the industry, roughly, and where?Maurice Askew: Is it rolling?Jim Shields: Yes we're rolling.Maurice Askew: Oh you've been rolling all along, I didn't know tha[…]
[…]ated to?Peter Stroud: Northampton.Jim Shields: Northampton. And er, after that, when you eventually left school where did you first start in the industry?Peter Stroud: Er, I had about six months in odd jobs first, then I - then I was about what? Fourteen and a half I suppose - no - yeah, fourteen an[…]
[…]speciality acts. He then made me a partner, I was very happy with that. And then I went into the Army, foolishly, I did not have to go, it was a very trying experience the first three months, but afterwards I found my metier.Alan Sapper : Yeah.Lew Grade : And I enjoyed it and stayed there till I got[…]
