[…]an office in London, a rather large office representing italian manufacturers and my father was the link in Milan. And this cousin of his died of a heart attack suddenly and he came over here to see what was going on, what could be done with the company and there it is . Since then, my father starte[…]
[…] had at Culver City. It really was state of the art in 1948. It was rather complicated but at least […]
[…] picture. This is at the end of each reel, at the end of each reel, and the the you then had a second lot 12 feet later, the first set of cues, you started running the next reel of the picture, which had been laced up on with 12 in the gate. And the second lot of cues, you changed the picture on the[…]
[…]hepherds Bush.Unknown Speaker 0:25 AndUnknown Speaker 0:27 from from the age of about 16, I got very interested in in films, particularly the spaghetti westerns or Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns and I used to go all over London watching those trends because they were made in[…]
Martin Spence 0:00 Okay, this is a British Entertainment History Project interview with Penny Woolcock. It's the 24th of April 2019. We're at Penny's home in north London.Camera's being operated by Nick Gilbey. Interviewer is Martin Spence. And the interview is copyright of the British E[…]
[…]e wooden stairs where therewas a small person who said ‘I've got what might just interest you, there are twoyoung brothers who are getting ready to start a film, would you like, like to work forthem for two weeks, they want someone while they're in town’. And I went to seethem, met John Boultin[…]
[…]y're very good films. And that's my culture, jazz, again that came from America. Then I decided I wanted to play jazz, be a drummer. And I was just starting trying to do that when the war broke out. Alan Lawsqn: Did you get in Johnny Speight: Yes, but by mistake. I was working in a factory and a fri[…]
[…]ather came out of the Royal Air Force I think that was 1928 when talkies started and uh he he wanted to go into the newsreel business which was just b[…]
