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British Entertainment History Project
The British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) records and preserves interviews with the men and women who have worked in British film, television, radio and theatre industries over the last 100 years "to ensure that their lives and experiences are preserved for future generations". History Founded in 1987 by Roy Fowler, the History Project started as an independent volunteer project by members of the industry trade union, ACTT, who wanted to preserve the stories and memories of the lives of the men and women who had been working in the various film and television industries. The organisation was originally called the ''ACTT History Project'', reflecting the fact that though it was an entirely separate project run by volunteers, it was nevertheless supported by the ACTT union. In 1991, the ACTT merged with the Broadcasting and Entertainment Trades Alliance, to form BECTU (Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union) and the ACTT History Project became known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Of Cinematograph, Television And Allied Technicians
Association may refer to: *Club (organization), an association of two or more people united by a common interest or goal *Trade association, an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry *Voluntary association, a body formed by individuals to accomplish a purpose, usually as volunteers * Non profit association, a body formed by individuals to accomplish a purpose without any profit interest * Collaboration, the act of working together Association in various fields of study *Association (archaeology), the close relationship between objects or contexts. * Association (astronomy), combined or co-added group of astronomical exposures * Association (chemistry) * Association (ecology), a type of ecological community *Genetic association, when one or more genotypes within a population co-occur * Association (object-oriented programming), defines a relationship between classes of objects * Association (psychology), a connection between two or more c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desmond Dickinson
Desmond Evelyn Otho Cockburn Dickinson B.S.C. (1902–1986) was a British cinematographer. He was cinematographer on ''Such Is the Law'' (1930). He directed ''Detective Lloyd'' (1932), notable as Britain's only talkie serial. During World War II he made morale boosting documentaries. He was the cinematographer for Laurence Olivier's version of ''Hamlet'' (1948), for which Dickinson won the International Award for Best Cinematography at the 1948 Venice Film Festival. Selected filmography * '' The King's Highway'' (1927) * ''A Woman Redeemed'' (1927) * '' Carry On'' (1927) * '' The Guns of Loos'' (1928) * ''Such Is the Law'' (1930) * '' Other People's Sins'' (1931) * '' The House of Unrest'' (1931) * '' The Great Gay Road'' (1931) * '' Account Rendered'' (1932) * '' The Callbox Mystery '' (1932) *'' Threads'' (1932) * '' Here's George'' (1932) * ''Dick Turpin'' (1933) * ''Love's Old Sweet Song'' (1933) * ''Romance in Rhythm'' (1934) * '' A Real Bloke'' (1935) *'' Cock o' the North ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Halas
John Halas OBE (born János Halász;Brian McFarlane ''The Encyclopedia of British Film'', London: Methuen/BFI, 2003, p.48 16 April 1912 – 21 January 1995) was a pioneering British animator. Together with Gyula Macskássy (an acquaintance from Sándor Bortnyik's Bauhaus art studio, Műhely), and Félix Kassowitz, Halász co-founded Hungary's first animation studio, Coloriton, in 1932. Coloriton existed for 4 years, producing animations for cinemas, including ''Boldog király kincse'' ("The Treasure of the Joyful King").Orosz, Márton. Vissza a szülőföldre! / Back to the Homeland!''. 10th Kecskeméti Animáció Film Fesztivál (KAFF) 2011. Orosz, Anna Ida and Orosz, Márton. Vissza a szülőföldre! - I. rész - Halász János - John Halas''. FilmKultura. 2011. Halász learned his craft under George Pal, but launched his own career in 1934, and two years later moved to England where later, with his wife Joy Batchelor, founded Halas and Batchelor in 1940. Over the years th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Green (filmmaker)
Guy Mervin Charles Green Officer of the Order of the British Empire, OBE British Society of Cinematographers, BSC (5 November 191315 September 2005) was an England, English film director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer. In 1948 in film, 1948, he won an Academy Awards, Oscar as cinematographer for the film ''Great Expectations (1946 film), Great Expectations''. In 2002, Green was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, BAFTA, and, in 2004, he was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his lifetime contributions to British cinema. Biography Green was born in Frome, Somerset, England. He began working in film in 1929 and became a noted film cinematographer and a founding member of the British Society of Cinematographers. Green became a full-time director of photography in the mid-1940s, working on such films as David Lean's ''Oliver Twist (1948 film), Oliver Twist'' in 1948. About 1955 in film, 1955, Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Gold
Jacob M. Gold (28 June 1930 – 9 August 2015) was a British film and television director. He was part of the British realist tradition which followed the Free Cinema movement. Career Jacob M. Gold was born on 28 June 1930, in North London, the son of Charles and Minnie (née Elbery) Gold. He studied Economics and Law at University College London. After leaving UCL, he began his career as a film editor on the BBC's ''Tonight'' programme. Gold became a freelance documentary filmmaker, making dramas as a platform for his social and political observations. For television, his best known work is '' The Naked Civil Servant'' (1975), based on Quentin Crisp's 1968 book of the same name and starring John Hurt, which won the Grand Prize at the San Remo Film Festival. He had previously directed the 1964 crime series ''Call the Gun Expert'' for the BBC. Other television credits include ''The Visit'' (1959), the BBC Television Shakespeare productions of ''The Merchant of Venice'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Godfrey
Roland Frederick Godfrey MBE (27 May 1921 – 21 February 2013),Bob Godfrey, Roobarb animator, dies aged 91 BBC News, 22 February 2013 known as Bob Godfrey, was an English whose career spanned more than fifty years. He is probably best known for the children's cartoon series '' Roobarb'' (1974), '' Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk'' (1976–77) and '' Henry's Cat'' (1983–1993) and for the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Gilbert (producer)
Cecil James Gilbert (15 May 1923 – 7 July 2016) was a Scottish television producer, director and executive for the BBC, who was its head of comedy from 1973 to 1977 and head of light entertainment from 1977 to 1982. Early life Cecil James Gilbert was born in Edinburgh on 15 May 1923. His father had moved to Scotland from Ireland. Gilbert was educated at Edinburgh Academy and the University of Edinburgh, though his studies at the latter ended after a year, when he joined the RAF Coastal Command during World War II, flying Handley Page Halifax and Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft from RAF Wick, Scotland.''The Times'' Obituary 12 July 2016 p. 55 Career After the war, Gilbert enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and he initially aspired to direct films. However, he also acted and wrote for theatre, and it was through this that he began a collaboration with Julian More; their 1956 show '' Grab Me a Gondola'' was a success, and led to Gilbert being offered a traine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold French
Harold French (23 April 1897 – 19 October 1997) was an English film director, screenwriter and actor. Biography After training at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, Italia Conti School, he made his acting debut age 12, in a production of ''The Winter's Tale''. As an actor, most of his roles occurred between 1912 and 1936, not gaining as much attention as later he would as a director. He worked as a screenwriter on three of the four films produced by Marcel Hellman's and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s production company ''Criterion Film Productions'' in the late 1930s, before switching to film direction in 1937, often with Marcel Hellman as producer. From 1940 to 1955, he had several box-office successes as director. This successful period was clouded by the 1941 death of his wife Phyllis in a Luftwaffe bombing raid. Although he did some television work after 1955, he appears to have retired from directing and acting after 1963. He directed the hit West End play ''Out of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Frankel
Cyril Solomon Israel Frankel (28 December 19217 June 2017) was a British film and television director. His career in television began in 1953 and he directed for over 30 TV programmes until 1990. He directed many episodes of popular British TV shows, such as ''The Avengers (TV series), The Avengers'', and the Television pilot, pilot episodes of the ITC Entertainment shows ''Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)'' and ''Department S (TV series), Department S'' in 1969. In 1970, he directed "Timelash (UFO), Timelash", an episode of ''UFO (British TV series), UFO'', which he described as a very interesting script and one of his personal favourites. Frankel also directed many documentaries and feature films, including ''Never Take Sweets from a Stranger'' (1960) and ''School for Scoundrels (1960 film), School for Scoundrels'' (1960; taking over from Robert Hamer, who was credited as sole director). One of his films, ''Man of Africa'' (1953) - the first film to feature a cast made up of rela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freddie Francis
Frederick William Francis (22 December 1917 – 17 March 2007) was an English cinematographer and film director whose filmmaking career spanned over 60 years, from the late 1930s until the late 2000s. One of the most celebrated British cinematographers of his time, he received numerous accolades for his photography, including two Academy Awards and five BAFTA Awards. As a director he was best known for his horror films, notably those made for production companies Amicus and Hammer in the 1960s and 1970s. Francis started his film career as a cameraman for John Huston and for the directing team of Powell and Pressburger before becoming a cinematographer for notable British films such as Jack Clayton's drama '' Room at the Top'' (1959), Jack Cardiff's '' Sons and Lovers'' (1960) – which earned him his first Oscar – and the psychological horror film '' The Innocents'' (1961). He became well known for his rich black-and-white CinemaScope framing, and was regarded as one of the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Forbes
Bryan Forbes Order of the British Empire, CBE (; born John Theobald Clarke; 22 July 1926 – 8 May 2013) was an English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist described as a "Renaissance man"Falk Q. . BAFTA. 17 October 2007. Retrieved 9 May 2013 and "one of the most important figures in the British film industry".Batty DBryan Forbes, acclaimed film director, dies aged 86. ''The Guardian''. 8 May 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2013 Forbes directed the film ''The Stepford Wives (1975 film), The Stepford Wives'' (1975) and wrote and/or directed several other critically acclaimed films, including ''Whistle Down the Wind (film), Whistle Down the Wind'' (1961), ''Séance on a Wet Afternoon'' (1964) and ''King Rat (film), King Rat'' (1965). He also scripted several films directed by others, such as ''The League of Gentlemen (film), The League of Gentlemen'' (1960), ''The Angry Silence'' (1960) and ''Only Two Can Play'' (1962). Early life Forbes was born John Theobald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Elstein
David Keith Elstein (born 14 November 1944) is an executive producer and a former chair of openDemocracy. Early life and career His parents were Polish orphans who were brought to Britain by the Rothschild Foundation, and ran a ladies' outfitters in Golders Green.Charlotte Higgin"The BBC: there to inform, educate, provoke and enrage?" ''The Guardian'', 16 April 2014 On a scholarship, he was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, before gaining a place to read History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, earning a double first. After graduating at the age of 19, he became a trainee at the BBC in 1964. He spent most of his first year at the BBC on attachment to the new Centre of Cultural Studies at Birmingham University. At the BBC, David Elstein worked on ''Panorama'' and '' The Money Programme''. His subsequent production credits, include for Thames Television, '' The World at War'' and '' This Week'' (of which he became editor) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
