[…]day nights in the winter he would give us a movie show. It was the high spot of the week. It was a sound projector of course and he used to get these pictures from government British Jebus scope film library. Always preceded by a short which would be the secrets of life or the secrets of nature with[…]
[…]and use it for lectures. I liked Thorold very much but I never saw that much of him. I then saw him again I think at one time I was on a committee at BAFTA and he was also on it. And that was very nice. But I knew a lot of early ACT people who I was very fond of, Sid Cole and of course the Bonds, Ra[…]
[…] open a new building. All it consisted of was a picture of a car driving up, the crowds cheering, she […]
[…] think at one time I was on a committee at BAFTA and he was also on it. And that was […]
[…] the screen, because they were Bester. Darling. Heart. So they were concerned, because, all right, wanting to have anything to do with the theater or pictures.Roy Fowler 11:13 Were they cinema goes or theater? Was that religious orUnknown Speaker 11:22 concert goers used to g[…]
[…]e took it very calmly, but that's how it happened to me. Well, then you see, there were restrictions on zinc, which they made the blocks to print the pictures in the newspapers, so there was going to be a restriction on it. So I thought, well, the one thing that was top of the pole in those days was[…]
[…]ll went well for just six months, because I joined in August of '35 and B&D was largely destroyed and quite a large part of British International Pictures next door, by the fire, the Ostrer[?] fire of February I think it was... '36. So that everything came to a rapid halt. I went home one night,[…]
[…] only time I had to seek my own jobs from picture to picture, was at that period for a very […]
[…]ause he was instrumental in lots of movies that I did and were wonderful. John Slessinger, all his movies. The first nomination I got for BAFTA was on a John Slessinger picture which was Sunday Bloody Sunday.I am getting to feel quite hot under the collar that I am not mentioning your To[…]
[…]h the matted glass and we could see all this blue flame and things like that. Then after a time it closed down and then it was taken over by a motion picture company - I'm not at all sure whether it was Paramount or something like that. And they used to make silent films round there, and occasionall[…]
