Douglas Slocombe

[…]as a scene, was still so destroyed, you know, in the cutting rooms that, through no fault of the editors, I mean, I think it was, it was the fault of universal, international, who were the distributors and producers. They just felt that four hours was too long, which it probably was. And, you know, […]

Gordon McCallum

[…]ck to the beginning again a little bit. Because I was only a boy, as I told you, when I went to the studio and of course ACT was at that time not the universal thing it became, and I only sort of discovered that there was such a thing as ACT after talking to Sash Fisher.Alan Lawson : Yes, yes...Gord[…]

Cyril Howard

[…]he general manager, Independent Producers was to virtually dissolve in late 1949 when there was a collapse, a universal collapse in our industry, and we all congregated, those who remained, at Pinewood, an[…]

Lionel Banes

[…]ent down into his office, and on saying the he didn't talk to me. He said, sit down before I talk to you. So I thought, Well, that can't be very good news. And then he said, we're going to close these studios down. He said, It's very sad that something's happened that we can't go on any longer. We'v[…]

Bryan Langley

[…]nk it was 16 by 11mm or something like this.That was the Academy frame and of course this was the standard size and you often see it in old-fashioned newsreel. If you look at an old-fashioned newsreel of the First World War, you'll find people's heads are cut off, their feet are cut off and you can'[…]

BEHP Bulletin no 7 April 2021[1599]

[…] used/worked with the HP • endorsements for the archive • news – latest interviews – recorded, digitised and t ranscribed […]

Peter Stroud

[…] when he went there it was Simplex and Western Electric Universal base, which he'd never been on before - even […]
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