[…]Decade, which Yes, the company was New Decade films, which was Stanley Marks and his father, his father, john. Now Stanley had been a cutter I think, British movietone News. And he was a very effective documentary maker. He employed me he employed me in those days, strictly illegally, I hadn't got a[…]
[…]I was interested in films all my life, I mean when ever any new Russian film came over or a new French film, I went to see it, and all the well known British and American films.Charles Drazin: Now at that time it was quite difficult to see Russian films, they were very much frowned upon.Manny Yospa:[…]
[…]s at every subject except arithmetic. I was in my own words a genius at arithmetic and I won five scholarships and eventually ... because I was not a British subject I couldn't get the scholarships. But I went in for one when I was fourteen and a half called the Trade Scholarship because my school l[…]
[…] 41:07 No that when Cavalcanti left Ian Dalrymple was brought in who was a highly professional former supervising editor of Gaumont British and then a writer for Korda and who actually directed a film with John Mills I can't remember its title as a feature film but he was hig[…]
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[…]omplain too much to me! I'm sure he disapproved most emphatically about it, but anyway they tolerated it. And so I was just sixteen when I started at British & Dominions at Elstree.Alan Lawson : How did you get the job?Gordon McCallum : By writing...that's all. My father did know somebody in the[…]
