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[…]mean you could stay in there for up to five hours for one performance.R. F. Was that freelance work?C. D. Oh purely freelance, yes. There was no contract. It was all very precarious.R. F. What would you do? Would you design.C. D. I designed and painted like a scenic artist. Well I was a scenic artis[…]
[…]ven feet of the tree. You couldn’t make it. I tried for half an hour and then then I collapsed. But I didn't stop trying. Nobody made it in point of fact. And I came out with B plus. which apparently was good. So they sent me Sandhurst. This is luck. Cockney boy from a working-class Co-Op housing es[…]
[…]’t really anything important. I never acted in films. I acted in one documentary film which was made by Donald Wilson. But I was a sort of speciality act. They wanted a bit of dancing and they would call me up and say are you free.But I did lots and lots choreography. I did the dancing such as it wa[…]
[…];                1: I’m now going to ask you some questions about the ACT.                        Ye[…]
[…]eet you Tom and to ask you about what you remember about that film which we were both associated with at Denham Studios all those years ago, 1942 in fact. Would you like to tell me about your involvement in that?Tom Peacock: Well I became very interested in this because we had a works committee at D[…]
[…]r. And it was a great success and I won the competition and everybody said you can direct, you're very good. And I thought oh well I think I'd rather act. And I was acting away like crazy. I was president of the experimental theatre club eventually. I played with the Oxford University's Dramatic Soc[…]
[…]d?MD: Almost. It was the end of the attachment and I was aware that I had to prove myself by the end of the attachment. I was offered a one year contract. Whether that was as a result of the Bevs or whether they had decided they would offer me one year, I don’t know. I think I got the message that I[…]
[…]f of about six or seven.Roy Fowler: The studio itself was it an old church or what was it?Norman Fisher: No, it was an old art school as a matter of fact. I think Augustus John used to inhabit it at one time. And it was converted as a ... into a studio. It was small but adequate for what we needed, […]
