Charles Bennett

[…] anyway, in those days the great company in England was Two Cities, which was controlled and owned by a man named […]

peter-tanner-history-project

[…] Cowards p. 16 Roy Fowler: Are you sure it wasn't Two Cities. Peter Tanner: No it was Cineguild because I used […]

Angela Allen

[…]I went down for the job and it was sort of very glamorous and I got this job for Marcel Hellman who was quite a tarter and I think I lasted for about two weeks because my shorthand was appalling and I got bitten by the bug. I realised I wanted to work in the studios, I really always knew I was a lou[…]

Peter Dimmock

[…]about it tomorrow.”  And he said, “Very good.” He was a nice policeman and off he went, because I had a girlfriend with and we’d only been there two days.            So, I then finally had to go and it then took me – what – about six months to g[…]

Jack Hildyard

[…] 7:32  was your what were your parents reaction to you going into the film business?Unknown Speaker  7:38  Well, my father was in two minds about it, because his wish had been,Unknown Speaker  7:45  hadn't been fulfilled, of course, and he was, he was a real city man. I[…]

Harry Coventry

[…]in to my aunt in Taunton, until I then sent back and they started, not the the the rocket, not the the doodle bugs, but rocket, the v2 rockets, the V twos started coming over, and those were very interesting occasionally. I remember one Sunday morning, we were going for a paper, and we were looking […]

Robert Scott

[…]ras and lenses and aerials and all sorts of stuff so he suggested that I apply for a job as a Technical Assistant at the BBC, which I duly did. I had two interviews. One interview was quite technical and the second interview was more, I don't know, it seemed much more gentle! The first one, I though[…]

Jill Balcon (Day-Lewis)

[…]. I think that's very important. I mean, he was central he, the whole house was run round him by my mother Roy Fowler  2:58  Two questions, then when was your first awareness of the nature of his business? What he was doing Jill Balcon  3:06  Very ea[…]

Christopher Miles

[…], I think a lot of boys in those days, I mean, who were lucky to have that sort of equipment or 8millimetre. That's how my interest started. I've got two sisters, Sarah and Vanessa, who, who one of them still is an actress. And Vanessa is now become a writer and a television presenter, and a brother[…]

Charles Cooper

[…]n June 5th, 1910, in London. My parents actually came over from Russia, from the Ukraine - this would have been about 1893 and they were about twenty-two years of age and they had two small children. They left Russia, never to return, and came to England with the two small children. After coming to […]
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