Len Runkel

[…]thout paying them, and they were left with no money. The hotel bills hadn't been paid, and they'd got to get home, you know, and they were shorts and documentary personnel, and when they came back, obviously, they came to the executive committee and told what had happened. And the executive committe[…]

Lionel Banes

[…]t a blank. He not Carol Reed, no, then, and at the end of that film, that was quite a long film, I was approached byUnknown Speaker  14:46  documentary company, really,Speaker 1  14:52  my mind's Desmond blank, yeah, but a long time ago, basic or data or anything basic, Noel.Spea[…]

Alan Izod

[…] other tracks, obviously. Otherwise, you pick up the sort of repeat.Stephen Peet  36:03  So you got to know during this time quite a lot of documentary people. Were there people who came there to the studio, or did you meet them elsewhere? Because it was a quite a small select band. AndAla[…]

Francis Searle

[…]h yes, yes, that comes to 46Speaker 1  44:47  is was beginning 47 something like that, Master bean, when Sydney box saw the theatrical Don. Documentary that I'd done for a British Council called student nurse Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, which did have a theatrical release and was […]

Peter Proud

[…]sp; s.c. Oh, I don't know, it's just a hazy memory. You see hitherto Sandy wasa documentary person,he had done films for advertising working forJ.W.T. J. Walter Thompson, and he wa[…]

Ted Candy

[…]rways, or we're building houses, or we're selling this, therefore, you know, good to us.Roy Fowler  37:10  Well, you could have gotten into documentary filming, perhaps nothing. It wouldn't have been so exciting. It wouldn't have pleasedSpeaker 1  37:17  you. Not only that, you s[…]

Sheila Collins

This recording was transcribed by funds from the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, University of Leeds) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University). (2015).BECTU History Project Interview […]
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