Mary Harvey (Welford)

[…]e was treated, you know, as nothing and couldn't make her mark in life at all. She was really independent so she had set off to go in the ship to The United States to make her way. And, the little, the baby I referred to, whichwas John Boulting’s baby, Norris, his mother, Jean Shepherd, and I've for[…]

Michael Colomb

[…]he British Jack Cardiff working with his gaffer and pre lighting sets, and he really only have to tinker with the set except for just worry about the artists in the foreground. And in America, though, it really the speed with which they did things, you know that you had your lightweight equipment, a[…]

Peggy Hyde-Chambers (nee Rignold)

[…]m about you.ADR, what’s that?Automated Dialogue Replacement.Oh is it, yes, ah, ha.And it’s a very classy place in Mayfair.Yes.And what they do is the artists come and when they finish the film, as you know they get a lot of background.Yes.They re-voice themselves and they all came there all the big […]

F E (Ernie) Diamond

[…]o go to a grammar school, whatever, in those days. And then I had four years at Western Central School Addison road and other add a previous to that. Artists difficut for for good work from Allen street for every year is give you a book that Nipa minimal came on I couldn't afford the books and they […]

Lindsay Anderson

[…] time the Rank Organisation, inspired by Stanley Baker and Joe Losey, they bought This Sporting Life and it was given to Julian Wintle of Independent Artists. Julian Wintle for some reason did not want to make a film with Joe Losey, I think they had made Blind Date. I don't know what happened, I nev[…]

Nancy Thomas

This recording was transcribed by funds from the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, University of Leeds) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University). (2015).BECTU History ProjectInterview n[…]
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