David Prosser

[…]of job I wanted could have been offered at one time by the Navy, and I seriously thought of it for a while, because I wanted to be able to travel the world at somebody else's expense, to get experience, without having to pay for it, in that sense. Ah, then I realised that the Navy was just a bit too[…]

Richard (Dickie) Best

[…]mes. What exactly were quota films?DB: There was a law brought in that British cinemas, American films, ofcourse, were flooding the market. The First World War had seen to that.British production and European production had dropped considerably andthey had during the First World War picked up market[…]

Dallas Bower

[…]erything in connection with the early days of the TV service was new. I mean, and furthermore this country was streets ahead of everybody else in the world. Streets ahead of America.Alan Lawson  14:27 Now er finally perhaps if you had a chance to start all over again would you change […]

Norman Spencer

[…]fered written the screenplay for it. I remember Houston off looking very, you know, he's hardly the smartest soldier soldier looking character in the world with a sort of pop baleen is battledress a bit arrived on the set every day. Sorry, touched your microphone. Now. Oliver Twist we got to Oliver […]

John Daly

[…]nal Film and Television school at the moment. And those students, their first year students now but in a year's time, there'll be out in the big wide world. And a lot of there will be going out as cinematographers really was. They they don't take the traditional route, although some of them have bee[…]

Stanley Watkins

[…]P Secretary,  sue.malden@btinternet.com.  Stanley Watkins  0:00  When it started off, it was right after the First World War. Well before that, about 1919, 12 or so, Arnold, one of our heads of our departments in the labs, had said that now that we got a good ampli[…]

Interview

[…]fered written the screenplay for it. I remember Houston off looking very, you know, he's hardly the smartest soldier soldier looking character in the world with a sort of pop baleen is battledress a bit arrived on the set every day. Sorry, touched your microphone. Now. Oliver Twist we got to Oliver […]

Pete Murray

[…]  He ran the pub for my grandfather in the East End so I didn’t see a lot of him but he had a rather tragic life in as much as that in the First World War in the Battle of the Somme he got gassed and I can see him now, I can hear him more coughing his guts out.  It was terrible and I was a[…]

Graham Hartstone

[…]top of the sound department was an enormous enormous glass mat where it was quite fascinating to go up and see the artist painting in the rest of the world. So they would have an establishing shot through the glass mat. Jumping to a bit later that when they had did a similar thing on the last days o[…]
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