[…]scription by David Sharp.NB: Some background noise is present from time to time. Where possible I have clarified points made, and inserted missing or forgotten names. [DS][preliminary setting up conversation]David McGillivray [McG]: Here we go. Harry tell me where and when you were born. Harry […]
[…]This transcript has been produced automatically using Speechmatics.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[…]
[…]. Side onePeter Montagnon 0:35 engineers also bridge builders.Norman Swallow 0:40 Sorry, yes.Peter Montagnon 0:43 Forget it and start again. Okay. I was born, I think, in Redhill, or in between Redhill and South Croydon somewhere or rather. And my father did date […]
[…]e. Yes. Yes I see him from time to time. He could have done better at BAFTA. Yeah. Yeah. Now what about all the the equipment and so on. Was all […]
[…]ay, ‘Gargantua, I must have...’ whatever it was he wanted to have, you know. [laughter] I knew him right to the very end because I used to see him at BAFTA and various places and his voice would come ringing out, ‘Gargantua! How are you?’ And everybody would turn round. [laughter] This very small ch[…]
[…]. 85[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: (Digital: 2012-10-02)Interview Date: 1989-05-11Interviewers: John Taylor, Stephen PeetInterviewee: Sir Denis FormanTape 1, Side 1Denis Forman: I was born in the lowlands of Scotland in Dumfriesshire in the Parish which hadthe remarkable name of Kirkpatrick Jo[…]
[…]off to the war. Don't remember much about the war except it seemed very unpleasant. He fell down a hole, got wounded, because we used to go to France for my holidays, and this damn bandage would come out, and you'd have bom, bom and you had these great marches which my father led and he was always i[…]
[…]en College from 1915 to 1919 I think it was.Wyn Ryder: What did you start as?Reggie Beck: I had gotten what to do in life. I couldn’t start for a long long time. In desperation I turned to somebody, I was very interested in the sound films as they were then, and after a long time trying to[…]
