BECTU History Project - Interview no. 1[Copyright BHP]Interviewer: Arthur Graham Date of Interview: 6 March 1987 Interview length (mins): 1.25[WA note: There might be a second interview with Eric Cross] Arthur Graham: Eric Cross, Lighting Cameraman. Eric where were you born and when?Eric Cross:[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 22[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-07-08Interview Date: 1996-04-11Interviewer: Arthur GrahamInterviewee: A.A. 'Tubby' Englander[Tape1, Side 1]Arthur Graham: ...A.A. Englander. Name of the interviewer: Arthur Graham. The copyright of this recording is in[…]
Alan Lawson, CameramanCopyright ACTT History ProjectSeptember 1987 Interviewer, Arthur Graham  Arthur Graham: Where and when were you born?Alan Lawson: I was born in Gidea Park, a suburb of Romford in July 1912, we moved to London 3 years later.Arthur Graham: Whereabouts?Alan Lawson: […]
[…]it screen work for this film, which was very interesting in those days, and very, very complicated. The film was being directed by an American called Arthur Maude and photographed as I say, by George Pocknall. Now, of course, the film that we used in those days was orthochromatic film, there was no […]
[…] people in the sound department. One was Ken Rawkins, who was the boom operator in theatre five, the ADR effects theatre at Pinewood. And another was Arthur Smith. Both of them lived in my road and Arthur Smith was, not sure exactly what he was, but he was in Sound Department at Ealing Studios, for […]
[…]h Ted Black. Being indispensable.RF: Did the unit go from one film to another?VG: On the Will Hays yes. We had a band of merry battlers. Jack Cox and Arthur Crabtree and when I started directing there, I upgraded Phil Grindrod who was our operator and he became a lighting cameraman and he did severa[…]
[…]l it was I think about '30...I joined I think in '33/'34. Roy Fowler: I think it was founded in '33 wasn't it?E.M. Smedley-Aston: Well Arthur Graham and I forget the other one, who were the sort of main... at Elstree. But anyway the thing was that there were a number of pictures on th[…]
[…]friendship with Davy involved some tales of his childhood experiences where he had been brought up in the house in Edinburgh formerly occupied by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle in his later years was well documented for his interest in spiritualism and the afterlife. From Davy’s experiences of someti[…]
[…]ing to break out in Tobruk.Alan Lawson: Oh yes, yes.David Prosser: Er...should you be interested, there's a story, if you remind me to tell it, about Arthur Graham, apropos breaking out of Tobruk. Er...no, Richard and I were there and he...it may have been the entrance to Benghazi, going up from Tob[…]
[…] was that he didn't try to steal the credit from young people. He wanted the credit for having chosen the young people and he never pretended on Like Arthur Elton, who every film author wants his films to be called Elton's film and Elton film. Bertha just had Rosa foregrounds it the directors and th[…]
