Search Results for: Variety (London Correspondent 1947-1985)

Peter Mullins BEHP 0707 transcript.Interviewer: Darrol Blake (DB)Interviewee: Peter Mullins (PM)Other crew: Dan Thurley (camera); David Sharp Darrol Blake: So, can we begin by saying who you are, where you were born and when?Peter Mullins: Right. My name is Peter Mullins, I was born in London, […]

This transcription was provided in 2015 by the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, Leeds University) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University). BECTU History Project Interview no: N/K Inte[…]

[…]vinist outfit the key pair for me but it was decided that we put the unit's we've got not so much big but if you've got so wanted to have such a wide variety of interests, and the pictures were getting more complicated, needed more organisation, wasn't just one guy with a camera and see what it look[…]

[…]story, that in point of fact, it was the increasing acceptance of and incorporation of factual film techniques, informative film techniques, in all a variety, the maturity, maturity, maturity. But what also happens, which gets forgotten, I think that some of the films made by others, directed by oth[…]

[…]nd on the stage, they built an interior of a canteen in wartime factory in an interior stage and what have you. And there's more or less like, like a variety show as such, really. But I can remember the films being made by Butcher Butchers films. Also we went on to the well known films of Scotland Y[…]

[…] and all that, they wer e the people who ran variety. We’d had the struggle against H.M. Tenn ent in […]

This transcript has been produced automatically using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of […]

[…]I first left school in 1950, the first application for a job was to the BBC.  Cos I was mad… I had already written up to the BBC for tickets for Variety Bandbox and things like that, to go out to the People’s Palace in London.  I used to go out and do anything to get tickets for broadcasts[…]

[…] then wanted a new challenge, but nothing was turning up at the BFI, or anywhere else for that matter, so I took time out for a year, I mean it was a variety of circumstances, but I had a house in Italy at that time so I spent some time down there, not the whole time, and buggered about for a year, […]