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[…]we want you to go to Paris because the Free French are going into Paris and there is nobody there to represent them, there is nobody to represent the British and it will all be Americans. So join up with such and such a detachment at Romboyet.I think there were about half a dozen of us we went and j[…]
[…]re the cinemas like, and how much did you have to pay to get in?Dicky Leeman: Well I can remember, at a later period when I was an actor, the Gaumont-British up in Kilburn - because I lived in Golders Green - if it was a very wet day, I would go round the agents looking for a job, and then in the af[…]
[…]ric and out in Japan. And, after I had got my notice, after the amalgamation of HMV and Columbia, somebody said ‘D P Field’s at a studio called British and Dominion Forms out at Boreham Wood, Elstree, go and see him. I think he might find you a job’. I went out there to see him.&nb[…]
[…] I don’t know exactly what his position was – in charge of an increased budget and also, with that, looking for films that would make an identifiable British avant-garde, contribution to the avant-garde, and so he was, he had seen Penthesilea and thought that it would be worth encouraging us to put […]
[…] people thatI knew, people got bombed out came and stayed, in the end I was cooking for sixteen people .[30:48]Mm, oh.Because of course, not having a British father and mother in those, during the war youwouldn’t perhaps remember all this, you’re not old enough to but you had to have aBritish father[…]
[…]oming back to this country, because of family illness I eventually got married at a time when I just managed to get a job with BIP, you know, the old British International Picturesat Elstree.R. F. Tell us how you set about that? Had you become a film buff, a film fan. Did you go to films a great dea[…]
[…]th it. And if you like, what I knew better than Tesler did was that you can go on doing the same thing as long as you wrap it up a bit different. The British public don't, if they like a thing it's just a matter of finding a different way of presenting things.So anyway I can't pretend I was that con[…]
[…] said to me, "There's a film being made by a German director called Wilhelm Tiele who directed some films in Germany...this was the time when Gaumont British and UFA were getting together. And we were, at this time, of course at Gainsborough studios in Poole Street. And Wilhelm Teile had made a film[…]
