Peter Proud

  THE COPYRIGHT OF THIS RECORDING IS VESTED IN THE ACTT PROJECT. PETER PROUD INTERVIEWED BY SID COLE ON 18TH NOVEMBER 1987.SIDE ONE Peter Proud:  Sid Cole     My fam[…]

Jean Kent

  The copyright of this interview lies with the \british Entertainment History ProjectInterview with Jean KentJean Kent (1921-) is a British film and television actress whose  work spanned seven decades.  Often known for playing bad girls, her film credits include Fanny by Gaslig[…]

Cyril Page

[…] if you remember, the first colour film that was ever shot was 'Sons of the Sea' in Dufaycolour. It was shot in er...in the studios at er...at...near Elstree. 'Sons of the Sea' - shot at Dartmouth - and it was processed by Dufaycolour in Elstree...Alan Lawson: Yes...Cyril Page: nearly opposite the o[…]

Chili (Dorothy) Bouchier

[…] I’ve got that as December ’29...CB: YesI: Herbert Wilcox was the producer and Walter West40 was the director and that was shot at B and D, right, at Elstree.CB: Was it?I: Well, it says B & D so I assume it was shot out at...CB: Well he didn’t always shoot at B and.... I didn’t know about the Br[…]

David Watkin

[…]shoot the, sort of, humble set down in this theatre in Portsmouth and that we would do all the big Busby Berkley numbers up at the … on the stages at Elstree. Now, once we had started shooting, was it MGM? I suppose it was, I don’t know. I think it was MGM. Whoever it was had got another picture bei[…]

Cedric Dawe

[…]se of family illness I eventually got married at a time when I just managed to get a job with BIP, you know, the old British International Picturesat Elstree.R. F. Tell us how you set about that? Had you become a film buff, a film fan. Did you go to films a great deal?C. D. No not at all. Well we di[…]

Muriel Box (Gardiner) (née Baker)

[…]ery beginning was that I was able to advise Sydney on the way scripts were done and constructed. I knew that, I'd worked on them for several years at Elstree.Sidney Cole : So what was the next film after 'Acacia Avenue'?Alan ? : There were some extracts from ShakespeareMuriel Box : Yes, that was Cas[…]

Geoff Labram

BEHP  0:00  We're in the theatre five at Pinewood at the date is the 25th, Tuesday the 25th of October 1988. And we're going to go through the basic questionairre first, and then hopefully, if we don't get out all the bits and pieces we want from the, we'll go over to the more specialised […]

Barbara K Emary

[…] soon as that, because it wasn’t until 1941 was it the Blitz started, and it wasn't very funny going back into the town. I remember driving back from Elstree. I had a little Morris Minor with a soft top, you put the hood back, and I felt absolutely all right driving as long as I had the hood up and […]

Robert Beatty

[…]lf of the week and interiors for the second half of the week.Roy Fowler: Low budget stuff. Where were they based?Robert Beatty: ABC again.Roy Fowler: Elstree. Who were the directors?Robert Beatty: [missing?]Roy Fowler: I don't know how you would have been able to learn your lines, two a week.Robert […]
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