Larry Allen

[…] Giant' and I wrote the whole book, I put part vision of it in, like part fiction and part non-fiction […]

William R Vicker

[…]t was while I was at rank. I used to go out there.Unknown Speaker  1:28  Then while I was at Sydney'sUnknown Speaker  1:33  panel vision was in existence, was being used at Pinewood and MGM Studios.Unknown Speaker  1:41  AndUnknown Speaker  1:44  I went to ser[…]

Larry Allen

[…]id - well I said to him, "You took the building with Bing Crosby." He says, "Yes." Now the funniest thing about it is, Ronnie Ronalde came on the television a few weeks back, you know Ronnie Ronalde, the imitator of - whistler. And he said that he was with Arthur Tracy not so long back, and he's nin[…]

Charles Picken

[…]inema LifeCHAPTER ONE - MY FORMATIVE YEARSFrom my earliest childhood the magic of the Cinema had been firmly entrenched in my life. In those days television had not yet begun its inexorable march into the living rooms of the nation and the weekly visit, or in my fortunate case more often than that, […]

Elizabeth (Liz) Bale

[…]in 1941 the only nursing home in Plymouth during the war, Nick Gilbey  0:35  right? And how did you become interested in television. Elizabeth Bale  0:44  I was always interested in entertainment. And at school, I always learned to play the piano, an[…]

Daphne Shadwell

[…] Project (formerly the ACTT History Project) and the right to publish some excerpts may not be allowed.CITATION: Women’s Work in British Film and Television, Daphne Shadwell, http://bufvc.ac.uk/bectu/oral-histories/bectu-oh [date accessed]By accessing this transcript, I confirm that I am a stud[…]

Charles W. Smith

[…]d it had to include a movie theater, which they named the Telekinema. And this was to show the best of technical achievements of British film and television, and this started a whole new episode in the cinema. The first thing was that Raymond Spottiswoode was brought back to England to take cha[…]

Maurice Carter

[…]ector for his lighting and moodRoy Fowler: Was there a tradition of that concept, of having a master shot that absolutelyreproduced the art directors visionMaurice Carter: Very much so, that originated and U FA it came through Alfred. AndVincent, Korda, was exactly the sameRoy Fowler: And John Bryan[…]

Julia Cave

[…]wallow, Alan LawsonTranscriber: Alexis PooleNorman Swallow: Copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project.  Julia Cave, television director and producer.  Interviewer Norman Swallow.  Recorded on the 10th of May, 1996. Side 1. Side 10:32 Norman Swallow: Right[…]

Keith Ewart

[…]ything you every picture you take. So yes, I have had a few story relationships in my my my freelance career, because even now we're freelance of television today, we don't eat tomorrow. So that's but that's different, because there I've got to back my judgment, because nobody else is interested in […]
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