[…]ou've already stated an interest in the cinema began at school presumably. John Schlesinger: Yes, my interest, we were very severely rationed as children, going to the theatre and going to the cinema were great treats and they were made great treats because we didn't do much of it. But if we wa[…]
[…], is all houses, but in those days ran from the middle of Wimbledon Hill to the top, and I remember there were horse buses in those days. Because, as children, our great pleasure, we had - halfway up the hill, where it became steep, they had what was known as a dray horse and this was linked onto th[…]
[…]the theatre.What are the acts that you remember, Daphne?DS: Oh, I remember Sandy Powell, I remember Billy Russell who drove us mad because, as a child I didn’t take in the jokes really, but he used to just stand there. The working man’s comedian, he was. And I remember, he always had […]
[…] Born in Shanghai, Dicky Leeman entered the film industry as child actor before developing into an assistant director at various studios […]
[…]22nd of June 1999. This is side one, and the file number is 453.Teddy Darvis 0:29 Right, Norman, tell us about your parents and your childhood. And when you first went saw a movie and where he was, went to school and how you got into the industry.Norman Spencer 0:42 Well[…]
[…]rgan recital. And it was a good place for an out of work actor to sit down and rest himself during the wet weather!Rodney Giesler: When you went as a child though, that was obviously still the silent period wasn't it?Dicky Leeman: Oh yes, yes.Rodney Giesler: So you can remember the pianists?Dicky Le[…]
[…]that at all, but I had actually heard and seen the result of this double dealing, this is all part of your education, I suppose you knew and for your children, you wouldn't do anything like that and talking about rashes there too. In rashes, quite a lot of directors only allowed the lighting caravan[…]
Charles Picken - My Cinema LifeCHAPTER ONE - MY FORMATIVE YEARSFrom my earliest childhood the magic of the Cinema had been firmly entrenched in my life. In those days television had not yet begun its inexorable march into the living rooms of the nation and the weekly visit, or in my fort[…]
[…]collections. Is that possible ? Jill Balcon 0:57 Yes, it's possible. I really didn't see him all that much. In those days, children lived in a rather remote life from parents. And so mealtimes were had with whatever keeper was looking after me. And I think Sunday lunch wit[…]
[…] the morale of the squadron went up! "If this little child can fly it, what the hell are we worried […]
