[…]t all.JS: Go on, I want to find out about how people get educated musically.RA: After that, I wanted to be a film director and I think it was Gaumont British offered a course for £100 where you could be an apprentice and I put this to my father and he refused to allow this because we had a history o[…]
[…] that keen. They thought my education was all rather wasted. During the course of business my father met Castleton Knight who was the head of Gaumont British News, quite a character, an extraordinary chap. He did a lot of extraordinary publicity stunts at a time when newsreels were in enormous compe[…]
[…]ell I'll go back and check with him because I think I'm screwing up and this is the head of production of Fox talking to me. I mean I just the humble British cameramen over there to make a film. And I find myself in this position but the they were so frightened of him. I went back to John and said t[…]
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[…]s transcript has been produced automatically using Otter.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 BEHP wants t[…]
[…]s transcript has been produced automatically using Otter.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 BEHP wants t[…]
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[…]ct people’s memories?  I’ve always been immensely interested in motion pictures generically and generally and I suppose specifically in the British film industry. I was aware of it from very early age, sort of around the age of eleven I was determined to, to work in it as a profession and,[…]
[…]cript has been produced automatically using Speechmatics.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 BEHP wants t[…]
