Michael Clarke

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Roger Smither

[…]rst cataloguing job at IWM was a sort of last hurrah for this kind of technology and I spent months analysing a British propaganda film on the Second World War, called Tunisian Victory, shot by shot. So for every shot even if it was only a couple of feet long, you’d have to write down a sequence num[…]

Gus Walker

[…]asing, and the hull was bored, but the inside was hiding it. And we eventually found that's where all the water was pouring in, and we it was a small world. My brother in law was the head of the boom defense that reside Dockyard and Willoughby, the broken charge, had worked under my brother in law, […]

Rodney Giesler

[…]cinema in Baker Street at that time. Latterly we had screenings at Britannic House (BP). Most units knew each other. The Transport lot knew Shell and World Wide.John Legard: It was quite a big club.Rodney Giesler: Indeed. We used to meet at the Highlander, now called the Nellie Dean. I was telling S[…]

Dennis Main Wilson

[…]nfrequent on sides four to seven. DS.Please Note: Dennis Main Wilson’s interview is not strictly chronological and contains strong views on politics, World War Two and – of course – comedy and light entertainment.Dennis Main Wilson Side 1Alan Lawson  0:00  The copyright of this recording i[…]

Ronald Grant

[…]eah, the clientele of Cosmo to Don's and lectures from the university students. They came to see Antonioni genre go down, and films from all over the world, but they were quality films. So there was some Hollywood stuff, but it was usually something thoughtful and would keep your brain going. And th[…]

Harry Fowler

[…]lms very well. Great people. William Powell and Ronald Colman, the Englishman with the velvet voice - I didn’t think he was the greatest actor in the world but [he] was very successful. He followed in the footsteps of people like C Aubrey Smith, because they kept their voice [“posh” English] “like t[…]

Geoff Hermges

[…]re the great firm on all aspects of high speed cinematography, and are now in, I think, Bob England, or something like that, and are the major in the world, the greatest people on the techniques of high speed cinematography. So again, I added a little To my knowledge, and having done that, I felt an[…]
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