[…]er:479Interviewers: Rodney Giesler Side 1Rodney Giesler:This is an interview with Roy Fowler recorded by Rodney Giesler on the 13 June 2000 for the BECTU oral history archive in whom copyright of this interview is vested.Rodney Giesler:Roy, can you tell me when you were born and where, a b[…]
[…] relating to that, when I was fifteen I was evacuated because the war had just started, and school was a total mess. And so I left in time to be home for the Blitz. I wanted to go into the theatre, into the theatre - which was The Oxford Playhouse. We're now talking - I can't work out the dates, any[…]
[…]something of a disciplinarian. He had been a don in Cambridge, in Anglo Saxon, and he got fed up with privilege, I think really. And he thought the Oxford and Cambridge system was a hotbed of privilege and he couldn't stand being a don anymore and he took this job and he brought order to a rather re[…]
[…]rd amount of paper work. If you do it well then the new ones don’t and I really think it is an underestimated job and when I saw that, I think it was BAFTA one year was giving out a prize to production accountants, but quite honestly I don’t think they contributed too much artistically to production[…]
[…]ies early 1950s. It feels.BDG What films stick out in your mind?CY Really. How did that issue exist. The Superman serials many ideas is a long time before I mean recognizing people in the film has made them an idea that was just as well.BG How did you start in films?CY I left school I was about 14 b[…]
[…]ly using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.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[…]
[…]lly went to an art school when I was 15.Roy Fowler: That was always part ofMaurice Carter: I suppose I always had, my father was in charge of work on for instancethe Titanic, interior work, and my brother was an architect, and my other brother was inpublicity, in artwork in publicity. So there was a[…]
[…]f the family. I suppose that the the most, one of the most important things, or the most romantic things, that happened to me, in my early days was before I was born really, when my father, who was a geologist, was chosen to be the chief geologist of Captain Scott's expedition to the Antarctic. And […]
