John Aldred

[…]own to buy a 6d seat at any morning matinee although it was strictly forbidden to do so because it meant going along a dangerous main road. One early two reeler I saw was called The Farm and to demonstrate how good the sync was he kept throwing this bucket around which made a terrible noise. Actuall[…]

Gordon McCallum

[…]yway, that was the end of production briefly, but very briefly. All the pictures went, rapidly, into other studios and we kept going in some - one or two lines in British International Pictures. Some at Rock, some at Whitehall I think it was called, wasn't it?Alan Lawson : Yes...Gordon McCallum : J […]

Tilly Day

[…]among others. Her final film was One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975). SUMMARY: This interview, conducted by Alan Lawson and Sid Cole, extends over two sessions - in the first session she speaks more qualitatively about her life and work, in the second session she is looking through photographs id[…]

Gordon McCallum

[…] time the Rank Organisation was splitting its production activities between Two Cities Films and Independent Producers. And Two Cities remained at […]

Tilly Day

[…] interview, conducted by Alan Lawson and Sid Cole, extends over two sessions - in the first session she speaks more […]

Waris Hussein

[…]it be possible to do a production if you can get the Arts Theatre for us, of me with the Marlow Society and the final year students at RADA and bring two lots of young people together and see how they mesh,because RADA has got a very grand attitude to theatre?". And Dadie thought, well, if you can g[…]

Ted (Robert Edward) Newman

[…]hose days. And they used to have Windows all down the side which we used to. They used to leave open before the film starts. And of course once these two dominant finished, they'd come in and start closing these windows one lot one walking down each side. We used to chill video because the as we got[…]

Michael Clarke

[…]'s employer was seminal gluckstein. In gluckstein, relatives firm Joe Lyons, which he didn't like, and we stayed until he eventually retired at 71 or two. All years from 1990, up to the beginning of the war 99 he was employed on the basis no notice is given or required. You can imagine how he was co[…]

Teddy Darvas

[…] got interested and fell in love with films.p.1John Legard: He doesn't recall what the film was?Teddy Darvas: No, it was some one-reeler or two-reeler [in about 1908]. And when Robert Rush, the BBC producer, that did the programme about Korda, he asked my father to go and tell this story b[…]
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