Daphne Anstey (nee Lily)

[…]as a very nice group of people. Then some of the directors decided they wanted to have their own negative cutter. And Stuart Legge, who was doing the World in Action programme, he started off with Canada Carries On and then he did World in Action.JL: That started presumably a year or two before you […]

Barbara K Emary

[…]gs like Say it With Flowers. But Say it with Flowers didn't come next, I think he did one called Men of Yesterday which was, it was before the Second World War, it was in 1937, it was about the First World War - 'great theme, inspiring interpretation, excellent teamwork and direction, showmanship pr[…]

Cyril Page

[…].I wanted to...and er...He...he was gonna get married. He was going to Ireland to get married, and he was going off to some...outlandish place in the world, and...I couldn't get a work permit or something, so I...I missed the opportunity of working with him. But I...I only did a few inserts, that's […]

Joe Mendoza

[…] wish to have a film show every time and I saw the battleship tank. And I thought I, this is what I want to do. And, oh, I bought out Mike, the Cindy world and everything. But then when I was 13, when I was vomits, for I was given a movie camera. I tried to make films with it and everything. And whi[…]

James (Jimmy) Gilbert

[…]which were absolutely packed out every night of the week. and that was the Scottish comedians again. But they had English directors, they'd scour the world, they used to go to Paris, they used to go to America, and they'd bring back all the top speciality acts, the top singers, and it was a very exp[…]

Jimmy Wright

[…]at time. My father who had been in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War had gone back into the Royal Air Force because in 1918 the RCC be[…]

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[…]

Christopher Miles

[…] consisted of a father who was in the engineering business, who would started making his own films and when he was young man just after the the First World War. So we have a very unusual 16 millimetre stuff. And I became very interested in this machine as a young boy, and he showed me how to work pr[…]

Edward Aneurin Williams

[…]composer was on Riggins. The film was fortnight's parallel, which was identified tool that the director produces was micropile, who's the edge of the world? I knew very well, because I'd seen it made a powerful impression on me four years earlier. And the thought that I was actually in the same room[…]

Wendy Toye

[…]er, I think I probably did with that ballet, but I don’t think I came up to her expectations as a choreographer because I then really left the ballet world. When I was about 18 I left the ballet world and went into the commercial world more. And it is very difficult to do both. I think they can nowa[…]
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