[…]hose days, and it was there that I met a chap called Bert Pearl who was a producer of realist films and when I said to him: “Oh my god, I’ve got to start</mark></</mark>mark> at Bedford College in a few weeks time and I don’t know what to do,” and he said: “Why don’t you go into films? You can’t be an actress, then go i[…]
[…] I can’t remember what his name was …There was an art</mark> director</mark></mark> who worked at the BBC and one day […]
[…]ather came out of the Royal Air Force I think that was 1928 when talkies start</mark></</mark>mark>ed and uh he he wanted to go into the newsreel business which was just b[…]
[…]. Jeffrey Hermes, lighting, camera man interviews, Gloria Sachs and Alan Lawson, side one.Speaker 2 0:38 Okay, right, once upon a time, start</mark></</mark>mark>ing at the beginning. Can you tell me when you were born, where you were born? Something about your early life and your family background? Yes,Spea[…]
[…]n as possible to Pittman's Business College, turning down my father's offer to send and pay for me to go to university. That was a bad mistake on my part</mark></</mark>mark>. However, I loved business study until my astonishment brought off with several first and such verds subject as English, type, writing, shorthand,[…]
[…]e upon Tyne in July 1956. I'm British, talking about my and my family background and origins, there was no involvement in the media industry at all apart</mark></</mark>mark> from a possibly apocryphal story that one of my father's ancestors had opened the first cinema in Liverpool. I've never been able to find any info[…]
[…]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 start</mark></</mark>mark>ed life in broadcasting with the BBC in radio in programme engineering, eventually became a studio manager and eventually a producer of radio, move[…]
[…]e clickety click, and I must have bawled my head off because my father came up to pretend to sleep. I went to the local preparatory school which was part</mark></</mark>mark> of the girls school, a very good school, run by the days school trust , something like that very enlightened School, where I was a junior. And my […]
[…]CTT on the 18th I think it is? Andy Worker: Yeah. Roy Fowler: ...of August 1988. Andy it's very kind of you to come along. Now we usually start</mark></</mark>mark> out by saying when and where were you born? Andy Worker: Well I was born in Bedfordshire in 1916. I always wanted to be in the film industry […]
