[…]use it was free. There he learnt to become very good at gymnastics and it appears, I don’t know, from what I was told by my father; a circus performer, I suppose he was on the lookout for youngsters, saw him and was taken with his ability and signed him up to go the circus. And he was on[…]
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[…]rictions on by the ACT, as it was then called, I wasn't permitted to direct. They put a ban on my directing and so I had to resort to script writing. For the Germans.Norman Swallow: But living in LondonRudi Cartier. In London. We came to the first thing, when I went to the old Charing Cross Road pos[…]
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[…]6 February 1989. A         In point of fact I was born in 1906 and the birth place was down in Deptford right over that part of London. Later on we moved up to an area where I was for a long time - that was in Crofton(?) Park, that is near Cat[…]
[…]any people!Alan Lawson : Yes!Gordon McCallum : I came back to England with my parents, who are English, when I was about four, and my schooling, therefore, was in England - that's why they came back, largely. And so my memory of America is pretty slight.Alan Lawson : What schooling did you have?Gord[…]
[…]Well it's changed the union a great deal, of course.Well that's it, I think it has. Because it's now really it's, it's all geared, it's like with the BAFTA awards and all those sort of things I get so upset about, it's all about television. I mean, film, it was the film...Y es.Awards, let's face it,[…]
[…]I mention this ordinary film because Mr. Parkinson... one of his strategies was to photograph landmarks in London, like teashops and monuments and so forth and mark the frame. You would photograph these things, fade out on the lens diaphragm and then you'd mark the frame, wind back and put it in the[…]
[…]and talking about the film to their friends. I think that's sad. And that puts me off going. Now, I think if you pay enough for you go if you get the BAFTA or somewhere, you can see the films and silence but or the NFT, probably, possibly, but there's too many, too many distractions and cinema as I […]
