[…]en, Orson Welles talked about making a movie as being the greatest toy train set anybody could ever have, my train set was one day when I was told at BAFTA that they would like me to look after the theatre and how it should be designed and what the technical equipment should be and that was my train[…]
BEHP Interview No 0726t Roger Smither (RS). Transcript. Interviewer: Murray Weston (MW). MW: This interview is No 726 for the British Entertainment History Project. The subject, the interviewee, is Roger Smither, and I’m Murray Weston, interviewing.Now Roger, we start as with most of these[…]
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[…]ly using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this interview.However, the BE[…]
[…]was a one-off.Rodney Giesler: I don't know. I never met him (Neame) although I wrote and thanked him profusely. Also I only finally met David Lean at BAFTA about 6 months before he died. But that day at Pinewood was the next step towards movie-making.John Legard: Your day out at Pinewood was a very […]
[…]s. It was it was very successful indeed.Alan Lawson  5:23  diminished Of course on television, whereas I remember seeing it posts I shows a BAFTA are somewhat terrifically powerful. Impact amazing really use. But it's like you say a work of art image? Well, it's how you react to everybody […]
[…]heltenham College. Not through any family connections, but my brother went to Cheltenham. And he went into the army, and then transferred into the airforce. I wasnt in the least military. I went up to Oxford for a year during the war and then went into the army. I served for three years I think in t[…]
[…]ewed by Steven Peet , the copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. And this is tape one, side one. And the date is June 11. 1998.Where were you born and when ?Alan Izod  0:46   I was  born in Putney registered in Wandsworth  which I think was Putney[…]
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[…] relating to that, when I was fifteen I was evacuated because the war had just started, and school was a total mess. And so I left in time to be home for the Blitz. I wanted to go into the theatre, into the theatre - which was The Oxford Playhouse. We're now talking - I can't work out the dates, any[…]
