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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[…]

[…]Harry Watt pioneered, as you were saying, and it was a tremendous step forward. But for many years I used to say to Edgar [Anstey] in the old days of British Transport, I'd say, "What a pity we can't do a little more dialogue shooting, I'm sure it'll be a good idea, you know. In certain films we cou[…]

[…]tter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.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[…]

[…]tter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.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, I think we were lucky in that. It did have attention. I mean, I think that was great to help by the Boulting  brothers, who were then running British Lion  that actually had his own short department division. Prior to that, I, I really walked out of or ran away and away to Paris. To stu[…]

[…] as a young Jewish kid felt quite persecuted at school. They would institute things like let's chase Schlesinger, it was a sort of pogrom. I mean the British have been nothing if not anti Semitic I think tradtionally. And I remember the sort of interest in German expressionist films at that tim[…]

[…]tter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.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[…]

[…]tter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.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[…]

[…]dn't go to Denham till 1950 and after three or four years they made me Chief Contact.Tape 1, Side 2Fowler/Lawson: In those early days of Gaumont British at the Bush, what kind of pressures were on the cameramen, well, also on yourself? Let's talk about you first. What kind of pressures did you […]