[…]an accountant and during the first war we moved out from Erdington to Henley-in-Arden which in those days was a very nice little village between Stratford and Birmingham. But I haven't been to there for some years. And I imagine probably now it's been absorbed with an outer urban sprawl, which now I[…]
[…]or, on the 25th November 1989. Well Charles, I've known you a number of years but really I know very little about your early life. When were you born for instance, and where?Charles Cooper: Well I was born June 5th, 1910, in London. My parents actually came over from Russia, from the Ukraine - this […]
[…]and it seemed as though - [chuckles] she told me that she was born in Carnaby Street and her father had a tailor's workshop, although that was long before my time, it was a coincidence. But anyway my mother had to just work day and night, because we had three children. And when I - instead of carryi[…]
[…]right things, so that by the age of 5 I was being allowed to watch the rehearsals of the Diagliev Ballet Company in London which was an unknown thing for anybody to do. It was never allowed, but she somehow or another found, because she sent me to a very good dancing school to begin with.LW: How old[…]
[…]o turn away from it thinking that it's it's a hatchet job or anything like that. Anyhow, the long the short of it is that the film did well, it got a BAFTA nomination.Unknown Speaker  22:04  Alongside oddly enough 10 rasa with whom I've worked asUnknown Speaker  22:09  a system. […]
[…]hools, it was leading up to and during the war, was my school period and I was sort of semi-evacuated. I think I must have gone through something … before I finished school age … something like 10 or 11 schools, dotted round London, Stratford, villages round Stratford, Exeter … NS What, Stratfo[…]
[…]hard, where and when were you born.DB: I was born in Hull in 1916 and brought down to London at an earlyage, about 3 or 4, where I've been ever since for which I'm dulygrateful because if I'd been kept up there I would never have entered thefilm industry.AG: What kind of schooling did you receive?DB[…]
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[…]myself a Cockney. That was 31st October 1903.AL: What schooling did you receive?SC: I had ordinary primary school education until I was 11 when I was fortunate to win a scholarship which took Isle to Westminster City School which is just off Victoria St.AL: After that did you do any specialised trai[…]
Brian Pritchard (BP)  Motion Picture Consultant (Formerly Kodak, Filmatic, Humphries & Hendersons) Interviewer: Paul Frith (PF) Date 05/03/2019 Length 02:17:14PF: This is an interview with Brian Pritchard. Thank you for taking part in the interview today. So just to star[…]
