[…]n went, right. So now then we will go Very happy and contented, nice Film Unit. I made a lot of very good friends many of whom I keep up with here at BAFTA, but the bombshell was around the corner with the arrival of a conservative government in 1952 5152. And one of the first acts was to close down[…]
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[…] fun because we got a lot of students from all over Europe, and I really grew up with a sort of League of Nations, which was fun! I went to Bryanston for one term. The only reason I went to Bryanston was because it was the only school at the time that didn't want people to have taken the 'Common Ent[…]
[…] at school I was always interested in photography of all kinds, cinematography. In fact in my last school I was in charge of doing the cinematography for the school, doing the school sports and any other event which happened to take place.Peter Musgrave: What do you think formed or provoked this int[…]
[…]ad to write a thesis on any subject you wanted to. So I said I'd write a thesis on films. So I used to go to the school library and get out all the information I could on films, quite useless information but information. And during this on one of my holidays I scrounged a visit to, I've forgotten th[…]
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[…] time winner, but it teaches one not to scripts or exotic things likeSarah Erulkar  36:09  I tend to do, but that was the film that won the BAFTA at the same time as I got that would have been the way BAFTAPeter de Normanville  36:13  Yeah. Let there be light still on that one. T[…]
[…]h, I must have done, yes, but I probably didn’t know his surname.I: No, well he went on to be one of Lean’s cameramen, camera operator, and he was at Bafta that night too?CB: Oh was he?I: Yeah, but, Peter says it was a very happy little studio, was it? YesCB: Oh, it was lovely, Oh, it was lovely. It[…]
[…].It’s still there but I don’t know if it’s still a school. Very near Putney Bridge. Andit looked more like a sort of ministry building and don’t forget it was War time or post War and many of the schools, like many buildings, had been bombed so there was a great shortage of schools so a lo[…]
[…]gressive in the 1900s and it had quite an intellectual a group of boys, we came from intellectual families mainly . W. H. Auden had been there just before and at that point he hadn't been regarded as respectable. His early poems came up to the school library, I remember someone saying I couldn't tea[…]
