[…]:12:00 Introductions; born in Margate, 1925; father was a solicitor for Southern Rail; lived in Margate until the war; as a child DW would got to the cinema every week; very little of his early life had anything to do with his career in the film industry, when he left the army in 1947 he knew he did[…]
[…] that one had to live above a shop and this sort of thing, because of the hours. You had to get there at night you know. If we went to London for the cinema, Freddie Young and I always used to call back at the studio on our way home from London you see. Because they were building a set for the next […]
[…]uch in the industry with Hitch, because we followed that directly with... Oh, I must tell you first of all, C.M. Woolf - who literally controlled the cinema in England in those days; he owned General Film Distributors, and nothing was put out in England, coming from America or anywhere, without his […]
[…]ngs at times, despite that generally quiet thing he had. I think we had a big showdown with the radicalisation about that. People were going into the cinema to see heaven and not the other one.Unknown Speaker 31:04 was able to come on film. Yeah, yeah. I remember Yeah.Unknown Speaker &nb[…]
[…]r, We have taken your demand of 9th instant in consideration. And we are ready to give you a start at one pound a week. Yours sincerely, Pathe Freres Cinema Limited, Gazette Department." So I of course duly went along, took up my position in the laboratory, and I was in the printing room. Well there[…]
