[…]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[…]
[…]ovice crew to tear the set down. Taking big chunks out of the set. And always remember the the Americans the difference between the Americans and the British directors, British directors will never give up. They will always envisage the shot and shoot it as they envisage it. The Americans soon say a[…]
[…]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[…]
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[…]divided one. Because they made the border while I was in my mother's womb. And they made it about a mile south of us. They drew the line and so I'm a British subject by about a mile and a bitWe lived there for about 4 years, and then sadly my father died. My father was a Presbyterian minister there.[…]
[…]formation but information. And during this on one of my holidays I scrounged a visit to, I've forgotten the dear old publicity man's name, at Gaumont British in Lime Grove, can't remember his name, anyway I went and found the studio and there they were, they were shooting one of the Aldwych farces a[…]
[…] out of the RAF. And er, I've been here ever since...Jim Shields: You were a dubbing mixer then were you?Maurice Askew: We were over at G-BI [Gaumont British Instructional] at the time...Jim Shields: Yes, that was what decided, was it?Maurice Askew: Hmm. I hadn't had - you know I'd been a sort of ge[…]
[…], yes.[Laughter] And, mm, because we knew all what had happened.Mm.HARRY COURCHA 6And how many people had already died, Americans as well, as well as British and all the various Allies that were fighting there. Do you want to hear the...?Briefly, yes. About the...I could go on.Did you go out, did yo[…]
Yvonne Littlewood DRAFT. Tape 1 Side AThis recording was transcribed by funds from the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, University of Leeds) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University). ([…]
[…]im in 1936. So this is why I presumed he could still remain a form master. Father could see what was happening. He had very good connections with the British Embassy.John Legard: And, of course, by then I mean Korda was over here by then.Teddy Darvas: By this time, Korda was famous.John Le[…]
