[…]ing of the war, we were evacuated. And then I was supposed to go to France to perfect my French because my grandfather was of French origin, although British Nationalised. And ofcourse, I never went to France to, to learn French properly, and ended up at Pitman’sCollege in Southampton Row, which I n[…]
[…] Transcription Date: Unknown - draft analytical transcription by Sarah Easen, British Universities Film and Video Council Interview Date: 1989-09-25 Interviewer: […]
[…]knowledge, in about 1927-28 to Pathé and was a camera man for Pathé Gazette and then, whensound started, he joined Fox Movie Tele-news. Now, or then, British Movietone is. He went tothe States to learn the technique of sound coverage and came back, continued to be their ChiefCamera man until about 1[…]
[…]this, it can't come in more if it's got 25 miles, 30 miles of wire in between [LAUGHING] And he thinks a long time and he said, Oh, yes but we've got British repeaters. I say yes, it has nothing to do with that. You know you're the on the incoming side, you know. So of couse eventually we[…]
[…] as a young Jewish kid felt quite persecuted at school. They would institute things like let's chase Schlesinger, it was a sort of pogrom. I mean the British have been nothing if not anti Semitic I think tradtionally. And I remember the sort of interest in German expressionist films at that tim[…]
[…]m Unit", "TIDA", and making films about Britain for sending abroad. You can go by its title, and. [00:14:30] I: It's kind of a forerunner of the British Council? [00:14:33] Yes indeed. And on the staff there working was Alan Izod as editor. Margaret Thompson as editor, Frank Bundy as occas[…]
