[…] Finsbury Park Hotel in those days. remembers the little boy playing on the biliard room roof. So the first daylight air raid on London was the formation of Gotha aircraft coming over to a big V shaped formation making a funny humming noise. bombing raid, you know, in daylight feed, you […]
[…]evision Engineers for October 1952, and I was co-author, in collaboration with Raymond and Nigel Spottiswoode. This paper was later given the Journal Award of 19—for 1952 by the SMPTE as the best paper of the year, the only time they'd ever given this to a non-American paper. Our programs went […]
[…]or, on the 25th November 1989. Well Charles, I've known you a number of years but really I know very little about your early life. When were you born for instance, and where?Charles Cooper: Well I was born June 5th, 1910, in London. My parents actually came over from Russia, from the Ukraine - this […]
[…] its there.SC : And you went to schoolGC: I went to school in Italy until about 12, and then we came to this country, my father, myself and my mother for what was intended to be 6 months, a maximum of a year, and we stayed here ever since.SC : WHy was thatGC : My father was connected in business to […]
[…] the Spanish Civil War, assisting Otto Katz to retrieve material for his book ‘The Nazi Conspiracy in Spain’. In the […]
[…]hp 0698 T Anne Fleming. Transcript. This transcript was originally produced automatically using Speechmatics, and has been edited by David Sharp for the British Entertainment History Project.This transcript has been edited to remove hesitation and repetition where it was felt that the speech re[…]
[…]call it Derek.Unknown Speaker 0:54 And your nationality. I'm British. I have a British passport.Unknown Speaker 1:00 And what awards have any Have you won over the years? Well,Unknown Speaker 1:06 what a difficult question in that I would have to thinkUnknown Spea[…]
[…]y, film's going in one end and coming out complete the other end.You haven't got time for any artistic, for want of a better wordAlan Lawson: Academy AwardsMonty Berman: All you're doing, you're in there to make your film, deliver it, and keepyour crew workingAlan Lawson: In a way, crudely put, it's[…]
[…]ey Cole: Jack, you spent your life in cinema distribution - how did you get into that originally?Jack Rockett: I saw an advert in the Daily Telegraph for office boy wanted.Sidney Cole: How old were you then?Jack Rockett: Fifteen.Sidney Cole: What had you done - what sort of schooling had you had up […]
