[…]do suggest that you ask Sarah Erulkar, I think she'd be right for this. I was still editing, longing to get back into directing. I was doing, I'd got Basic, by then I was doing editing on 100, A Century of Coal. That very big, Sam Napier-Bell, yes. But I was still editing. And Karel, and Anne Balfou[…]
[…]ral hundred costumes for this?Yes, yes.And how big is your staff to handle that quantity of costumes?Well, what you usually do, you’ve probably got a basic staff of three or four people andthen you have extra daily staff in if you’ve got a really big crowd that’s got to be got onthe set by half past[…]
[…]now, or whatever they call it. So I did that, and it was kind of the rudiments of music, you know, two and three part harmony writing and the sort of basic theory of music was the in the curriculum for this particular subject. Does it come to you fairly easily? Yeah, I loved doing it, you know, it w[…]
[…], on one assembly line was the SS Jaguar being built, without any chrome. It had got to the stage where they couldn't put chrome on cars, it was very basic. And on the other assembly line they were building military vehicles. So that was the first real indication I had and unemployment - there was n[…]
[…]d. So I spent two extraordinary years. Once I got the hang of it, I mean, it was I didn't think I was gonna survive to begin with because the 10 week basic training was absolutely grim. And joining a ship was you know, as a national serviceman when there were only two of us on the on this Minesweepe[…]
[…]xiliary Military Pioneer Corp becoming a Corporal and spent a year at Ilfracombe; KA talks about his time at the camp in Ilfracombe where they taught basic military training with no arms; he kept applying for the RAF during this period and was successful in 1941, moving to Scarborough for training; […]
[…] it and when I left school, I was seventeenand a half, and I did a year as a trainee at the Kodak Institution in Wiltstone near Harrow andlearned the basics of photography. And then I was taken on as assistant camera man by a tempcalled James Hodgson - Jimmy Hodgson - who was, again, an ex news came[…]
[…]rong with the car but by sign language they decide, they explain that there’s what’s wrong I think, what? The rotor arm, I don’t know what it was but basically... Now what was his name? I think he was Giuseppe, Giuseppe’ll put it right. And what do the English couple do? They get out their picnictab[…]
