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

[…] enormous, and you had enormous theatres, so you had to have a picture that appealed to the vast majority, or your theatre wouldn't be filled. Now, a variety of films are able to be shown because you have smaller cinemas, and then a smaller cinema is viable and can pay for itself, even if it appeals[…]

[…], very early part of 1943 or could be the end of '42, when Malta convoys were considered to be quite a dangerous affair to be put on. Er, I was a war correspondent with British Movietone News, and it fell to my lot, Sir Gordon Craig informed me one day that I would have join a Malta convoy. In those[…]

behp0087t-Geoffrey-Conway-transcriptTRANSCRIPT by LINDA WOOD GEOFF CONWAY  16 May 1989 - Manny Yospa interviewing Geoff Conway The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project SIDE 1, TAPE 1 Manny Yospa: When and where were you born. Geof[…]

Len Lawrence Laboratories, Technician, Editor (Stoll, Humphries, Technicolor)BECTU No.81Interviewers Alf Cooper (AC) & Alan Lawson (AL)Date: 12/04/1989 Side 100:00:00 – 00:03:58 Introduction; early life; schooling; 11 plus exams; first job in a fruit shop; working in an ironmongers.00:[…]