BECTU History Project - Interview No. 17 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: Unknown - draft analytical transcription by Sarah Easen, British Universities Film and Video CouncilInterview Date: 1987-09-16Interviewer: Roy FowlerInterviewee: Reg SuttonSound recordist: Taffy HainesTape 1, Side 1&n[…]
[…] Transcription Date: Unknown - draft analytical transcription by Sarah Easen, British Universities Film and Video Council Interview Date: 1987-09-16 Interviewer: […]
[…]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.[…]
[…] there was a fellow there, a young boy about the same age as me, who did, I think he had a relation there, anyway he got a job at Lime Grove, Gaumont British, clappers, very junior, but in the camera department. That sort of spurred me on, I thought well I must get a job like that. And then of cours[…]
[…]which was a little bit it wasn't it wasn't much but it sparked the whole business off, you know, and he's got me a job. As an apprentice with Gaumont British that the Shepherds Bush Pavilion, which was in the largest in modern Europe.And 3000 seater, and I worked for the UN I put out in the care of […]