BECTU History Project - Interview No. 362[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-08-16Interview Date: 1995-08-02Interviewer: Sydney SamuelsonInterviewee: Erica MastersTape 1, Side 1Sydney Samuelson: Well we're sitting here on the 2nd August 1995. We're in the meeting room of the British Film Commi[…]
[…]is: I was born in Caledon, in what is County Tyrone, in what is now Northern Ireland but there is a Story in that I was born, I was conceived under a united Ireland and born under a divided one. Because they made the border while I was in my mother's womb. And they made it about a mile south of us. […]
[…]s a high class program or you fell immediately much more important and much more respected by our customers. They must have been a very great loss to United Artists United Artists always seem to have other suppliers coming in. But there must have been a big glass. Yes yes.[00:04:35:090] - SPEAKER: M[…]
[…]heard it you never see his name again. So took in the film credits and I often wondered what had happened to him. I just assumed he'd gone off to the United States and tried to do the same thing. But he actually became a cinema central proprietor Donald Wilson 35:47just disappeared. But o[…]
[…]t of the box by probably half an inch that would dance up and down. While the bad lock was on making the most ferocious noise that would frighten the artists alive. And so it was full of excitement. Being the kind of person I was because I was never really satisfied with carting a load of boxes onto[…]
[…]ss, you know, you're there, even if you poke at somebody and, you know, make noises, and say sort of this is, this is not on.Did you find any leading artists difficult from a continuity point of view at all or not?Mm, in the main they're very, they were very good, yes, some, a few of them. Again, li[…]
[…]ver you were going to say. During the war, the services took care of that for you. You know, they shipped it back for you. Then I was attached to the United States Navy. When that was I was told. I went home, I had a phone call at home, and the guy said, Can you come to Grosvenor Square? And I said,[…]
[…]ll these things, weeks and weeks of shooting, and afterwards of course the cameramen went to the Alps and shot the background and the two things were united, stuck on top of each other. 5. Problems with Independent FrameThis went on and there was hardly a British film made in which travelling m[…]
[…] and = already taken one big sabbatical off in the United States – David very generously allowed me to use […]
[…] that were emerging at the time, particularly perhaps in the United States, as protest films, the Newsreel collective, the Women’s […]
