[…], I think, or there around. And so I spent all my schooling in Ross, and that was, of course, then sort of late ‘30s and into the War. So, the early part of the War anyway, I, I was in Ross, I was in school there. Convents, schooling, I can't claim any academic qualifications, but I did specialise i[…]
[…]imary school, run by the local council. Standards were very high, discipline was very strict. But then the discipline at home was strict. You know, apart from the silly thing of little children should be seen and not heard. That didn't apply, my old man. I talk like a lord knows what you know. But w[…]
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[…]ct and the name of the interviewee is Clyde Jeavons and the interviewer is Murray Weston and its being recorded on the 15th of July 2016.Well, starting right at the start Clyde, you joined the BFI at what sort of date? CJ: February 1969.MW: And prior to that?CJ: as a totally[…]
[…] Kay's Laboratory, and he owned the Comedy Theatre as well.Roy Fowler: Yes.Vernon Sewell: And it was through him I got into the movies. I started as a sound recordingengineer.Roy Fowler: What - is there anything in between? I've got that you went to Nettlefold in 1929 as a camera assi[…]
[…]1991.Well, if you don’t mind, you know, when and where were you born?I was born in India in 1918.Where?I was born in a little place called Ranikhet, partly because, you know, pregnant mums from... my father was in the Indian Army and they were all moved into the hills, so I was born in the foothills[…]
[…]you had a great desire to go into motion pictures.Eddie Dryhurst: Yeah.Roy Fowler: Your family background, as I say, is documented, so why don't we start out with your first initial urgings to go into film and what films were like at that particular time, what made you feel that way about them?Eddie[…]
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[…] into the waterworks headquarters, which was an extraordinary sort of art deco building full of people with amphora, you know, […]
[…]s in this industry it gets very confusing, as he and I found when we all worked together with about another 18 Johns years ago. But John started life in broadcasting with the BBC in radio in programme engineering, eventually became a studio manager and eventually a producer of radio, move[…]
