Frank Littlejohn

[…]his chap is nogood, I'll have to sack him." Then I was given, because much of our work was for advertising, and there was a full length thing, they would often be full lengththings, this for Horlicks milk and&n[…]

Kay Mander

[…]s new people, strange people.Sidney Cole: Not like the commercials now, fifty per cent of which it's very difficult to discover what the hell they're advertising.Kay Mander: Oh I know! I haven't a clue what they're advertising, I know. They just go on, and you say, "What was that?" It ends with a ca[…]

Edward Dryhurst

[…]oducer wanted to use it. Because they realised the value of publicity, they realised that what went on the screen was seen all over the world, it was advertising America. But the British weren't quite so quick as that. But the 'Daily Mail' in particular raised hell the next morning, they criticised […]

Bill Mason

[…] came back and I came in . The man |behi nd them On the Shel 1 si de Was Alex Fo who had a lot of responsibility for all the very sophisticated Shell advertising before the war and afterwards, the film unit was very much his baby, and in the evening, when we'd finished about 6 o'clock, he 'd almost […]

Alan Lawson

[…] camera man was Jack Miller, he was one of these Wardour St cameraman who dabbled in this that and the other. He'd done a bit of newsreel camerawork, advertising films, he did anything which came along, he wasn't bad. Then after that I went on to Arsenal Murder Mystery with Thorold Dickinson and Des[…]

Bill Girdlestone

BECTU History Project - Interview No. 3[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: (Digital: 2012-10-02) Interview Date: 1987-04-22Interviewer: Roy Fowler & Alan Lawson Interviewee: Bill GirdlestoneTape 1, Side 1Roy Fowler & Alan Lawson: Now, Bill, where were you born, and when?Bill Girdleston[…]

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[…] when I left school in 1929 I went into the advertising industry and I was going to be with Mather […]

HP0249 Sheelagh Rees – Transcript

Sheelagh Reece DRAFT. Tape 1 Side A 1 This%recording%was%transcribed%by%funds%from%the%AHRC9funded%‘History%of%Women%in%British%Film%and%Television%project,%193391989’,%led%by%Dr%Melanie%Bell%(Principal%Investigator,%University%of%Leeds)%and%Dr%Vicky%Ball%(Co9Investigator,%De%Montfort%University).%(2015).% BECTU History Project Interview no: 249 Interviewee: Sheelagh Rees Interviewer: Norman […]

Peter Birch

[…] and going into the BBC was taken up with an advertising man for about three months, that doesn't rank really […]
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