Charles W Smith

[…]Tatler Liverpool, the Tatler News Cinema in Liverpool. That was, I see, on the 13th of January 1952. This was the first public cinema anywhere in the world to show polarized 3-D projection. The cinema screenings were a great success. Surprisingly as it may seem, our program of 3-D shorts broke […]

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[…]

Robert M (Bob) Angell

[…]e. He stayed in the film industry to the best of my knowledge. However, we were very lucky because there were certain developments going on including world inaction, which was The story was that Grierson invented the name world in action in Canada. When he was appointed to the COI, to run the COI he[…]

Gerry Humphreys

[…]t to the Grammar School there.  In early 1945 we came back from there and did another year at Surbiton Grammar School and then out into the wide world which was by then, like every child that used to go to the pictures two or three times a week I certainly wanted to be in the film industry and […]

Daphne Shadwell

[…]ything in her family, she was just a natural performer and in fact when they first married, she went on tour with my father just after the war, Great World War, and appeared in a show, she travelled in a show and appeared in it for quite a while. But she was...JPH: [incomp – 22:27] or[…]

Bill Cotton

[…]s and high days and holidays. And then he joined the army and became a drummer in the Royal Fusiliers, and a buglerJohn Taylor: Was that in the First World WarBill Cotton Jr: Yes, the First World War, then he became a pilot, crashed in his plane. And when he came out he played professional football […]

Bill Girdlestone

[…]all that sort of thing - and I had to print the rushes. And one of the first jobs I did was to print the rushes for Griffith, who made 'Hearts of the World' partly there.Fowler/Lawson: That's at Worton Hall?Bill Girdlestone: No, that's at Twickenham, yes. When I was now at Twickenham, and […]

John Krish

[…]- really about hygiene. It sounds terribly dull, it was not dull at all - about the problems of living as a community. But it was about health, about world health really. And the last five minutes was a reconstruction, it ran about forty minutes and the last five or ten minutes was a reconstruction […]

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 […]

Russell Galbraith

[…]not saying that figured largely in Management considerations for doing it but it was more a question of winning brownie points, I think, in the wider world. But, at the same time also, I think it should be said again, particularly with the religious slots, it provided some kind of comfort zone for a[…]
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