John Ammonds

[…]r what are they REO tango.SPEAKER: M5Something like what it was like that. It was like that and it was quite again a fascinating time. The variety of world was with you knob twiddling. Well I can't remember. They were Army blokes who'd been REME and doing it anyway and they I can't remember any of t[…]

Gerry Weinbren

[…]e best job we could get to have but from training. I suppose the greatest thing about my shell experience was that Burt hamster. Was making the rival world at that time. My greatest disappointment that I wasn't the assistant because at Shell of course the assistant director. Did virtually everything[…]

Anthony Mendleson

[…]right for the sort of costumes we wanted. So they were all made for literally next to nothing. And then the first introduction I ever got to the film world, strangely enough, was... I was painting - portraits and so on - and I had an agent then. She - I don't know how she found out, but anyway she d[…]

Richard Levin

[…]nes the one wrong one you get better at it. as you go on. anyway I did make decisions. And I think I turned the department round quietly. I've got it world renowned with the various exhibitions and promoted international exhibitions of design. Do you remember those? I'm quite interesting, in a way. […]

Leonard (Len) Harris

[…]hter] Anyway I had to leave it at that but I think...Alan Lawson: Yes, who else was on the course?Leonard Harris: Oh er, Jimmy Carr.Alan Lawson: Yes, World Wide?Leonard Harris: World Wide, yes. Of course World Wide came afterwards.Alan Lawson: Oh yes, very much so! [Chuckles.]Leonard Harris: Yes. Le[…]

Tilly Day

[…]an advertisement in the paper saying, "Wanted, very bright secretary,very ladylike..." very this, that and the other, every sort of speciality in the world...Sidney Cole: Everything you had in fact?Tilly Day: Oh yes, and I had it... I thought! [Chuckles]. And so, unknown to my parents, bec[…]

Bill Mason

[…]ing films, then I got a certain amount of political smearing, John Armstrong took over that, I was then working on a Shell series called Look at Your World which was the world of Shell - I think they worked out the idea that they would have these films which they would show round the world which wou[…]

Kitty Wood (Morrison)

[…] you could say - children's films or second features things like that you see, and I worked on those. I worked on the very bottom rung of the feature world.Jim Connock : Which director do you think had the biggest influence on your career? Or which person did you think that you profited through work[…]

Martin Gibbons

[…] was actually in their archive. And with that in mind, the society set about trying to pull together, these recordings from collectors all around the world, and the archive started to grow. So to this point in time now in 2022, we have over 1000 items in the in the audio, library, and several 100 in[…]
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