[…]were back on the Saturdays about the morning. These dreadful films. I mean, they were but they were the quota quickies which of course, filled up the cinemas and we did two or three of those as well while I was there, and then seems an awful lot happened in that short time. I was also then sudden su[…]
[…] have been silent. But I can also remember, long after that, when I was growing up, and very aware of films and actors and directors and the world of cinema, that's what my father did ,was the constant stream of visitors to the house. My parents were extremely hospitable. I can remember him at a ver[…]
[…]sh Lion. So I thought well that was interesting. I'd heard, I'd come across them in another context, the brothers Hyams, you know, in, in..There were cinema owners.32That's right.Distributors.And distributors. And, and Hillary came home one day and said ‘Oh they, so and so’s grandfather’s going to b[…]
[…]the military exam, which we did better work. But if you've got the example that went quicker to the, to the IRB, and so therefore, I started going to cinema as I used to go to films twice a week, twice a day, every week. So if Sunday's were three times a day, and that was ready, I got so that was th[…]
[…]bsp;I don't, I certainly didn't have any ambitions for the film [industry]. I was a great film fan. I mean, I was, as we were. I mean, we went to the cinema every week, and sometimes twice a week, sometimes three times. I mean, depending what films were about. And of course, most, or a lot of my sch[…]
[…]terloo shot was but the bet behind the house I was born in. And as far as I can get as far as I can judge. I think I was born where the Festival Hall cinema is today. What year was that? 1926 19. And I actually did a programme once the cinema the you know, the festival did our kinda festival the Bri[…]
[…]id that and for about six months or ayear and then the Telekinema which was the Festival of Britain cinema which had been used curiously enough by the husband of Kumari Ralph, my friend, Jac[…]
[…]me Grove at Shepherd's Bush, and I started there. And the reason I started there was because my father was having a film made there. He wrote for the cinema and theatre, and I thought it would be a good idea to go into films because you didn't need any intelligence as far as I was concerned, and I w[…]
[…]he said Stratford, I thought he meant Stratford on Avon, I said Oh yes Stratford on Avon, he said no Stratford le Bow in the East End. He said it's a cinema. At 11 o'clock the audience will be out and we're going to record the organ in the cinema. You be there. So I said fine. He said I'll pay you £[…]
[…]hat time it was very exciting. Although it of aperiod of changeover from silent to sound, it was also a great period for seeing films for there was a cinema called The Avenue Pavillion which was more or less where the Columbia is now and they showed an amazing variety of films from all over the worl[…]
