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[…]r spoke to the school and asked whether they would take me on. I was 12 ½ then as a refugee. Because the British government was admitting children on condition there was a guarantor. And they did that[…]

[…]evastopol, for which he was given seven years off of his twenty-five year army period.Sidney Cole: Because Sevastopol was the siege wasn't it, by the British and French armies?Charles Cooper: The siege of Sevastopol, the British and French, yes. There were three battles - Inkerman, Scoram and Sevast[…]

[…]ly. In fact, if I may digress for a few seconds Gaumont Kalee which was a rank company part of rank film equipment was a company which had existed as British Acoustics for a great many years. And in my view was a very much underrated company. I believe they made first rate equipment. And if they had[…]

This recording is the copyright of the British Entertainment History Project. The transcript is not verbatim.Interviewer Roy Fowler. Interview Date: 18th August 1988.SIDE 1, TAPE 1Roy Fowler: You've been in this country 50 years now.Robert Beatty: More now, I came over in 1937. I went to Toronto for[…]

[…]u better write to him again. So she did and to cut a long story short aletter came saying would I go and see John Corfield at Golden Square, whichwas British National headquarters, I think it's now where the Granadabuilding is. I didn't know, what for so one November day in 1935 I wentup there and w[…]

[…] Pinewood. 1940s -60s - Feature sound recordist, particularly at MGM British (Elstree). Also with David Lean, Kubr ick and Hammer. […]

[…] Cole: Because Sevastopol was the siege wasn't it, by the British and French armies? Charles Cooper: The siege of Sevastopol, […]

[…]nbsp;T Anne Fleming. Transcript. This transcript was originally produced automatically using Speechmatics, and has been edited by David Sharp for the British Entertainment History Project.This transcript has been edited to remove hesitation and repetition where it was felt that the speech recognitio[…]

[…]to me and I had got this gladiator’s helmet and he said to me ‘what’s this?’  I said ‘it’s a gladiator’s helmet’ cause I had cobbled it from the British Museum.   ‘Oh that’s a funny sort of hat’.  I was a really stroppy git when I was a kid, I mean, I was really balshy, you know.[…]