[…]r the broadcast. So I rang the producer up and said, Do I need to dinner jacket ? Oh No just a suit would be quite alright. And in point of fact, the announcer wore a dinner jacket that it was live, of course, it wasn't recorded. Darrol Blake  6:56  And then the war started […]
[…]o schools in South Africa. I went first to a school called Herschel, which is outside Cape Town in Claremont. Then my mother moved for her work to Johannesburg for a year so I went up to Pretoria, where I was a boarder for a year in a convent, but then she left and went back to Cape Town, and I went[…]
[…]first shot I had to do, for the television newsreel, with the old mast with the words going round, was to go out in the North...er into the English Channel and join the [name of ship? Pameer?], a big four-masted trading ship that came from Australia, and I came right up the Thames with that, and tha[…]
[…]g an undergraduate, going back to being a student and not earning a living and I wanted to get married and all those sorts of things, so I thought I cannot go back to being a student and I got a job. And in a way, actually academic zoology was not what interested me, sitting in labs was not what int[…]
[…] junior, junior apprentices would be at the bar and could occasionally pick up fragments of dialogue from Grierson. And when 'Night Mail' was being planned and people were throwing ideas around for the script and so on... I can remember Grierson saying - I'm para-phrasing rather badly perhaps - but […]
[…]to, because they didn't know what to do with me, it was very odd. There were quite a number of women there, Kay Mander was just finishing there. And, Anne Womersley who did most of the fruit films that they did you know... Anne Womersley Rodney Giesler 17:15who? Walm Sarah Erulkar&nb[…]
[…]ndeed.Alan Lawson: How long were you there? A couple of years?28:00 Julia Cave: Yes, a couple of years [long pause] And I sort of planned to work in the theatre when I came out, but it wasn’t, there wasn’t much work around and at about that time, John Warrington, who I’d worked wit[…]
[…]iked and so at least you had a speaker back stage so it made it much easier. But I got so used to doing it without the Speaker, it did sometimes just annoy me. That was the way it was done, and eventually now there is television backstage which is a whole different proposition .TD: Can you tell the […]
