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[…]r directed, and he also, I think, he was director of photography. And it was his idea, his his conception. And it was a slapstick, a silent slapstick comedy about a honeymoon couple. And he always said, comedy must be the most difficult thing to do. So this, to him, was, again, really a challenge. A[…]

[…]and I think ten bob was pocket money.  And I stuck that out for a year and I used to, in the afternoons, I used to occasionally pop into all the comedy, cartoon cinemas around and I used to see all the newsreels and Laurel and Hardy and all those sort of things, and the early cartoons.  So[…]

[…]ation?CB: No, no, I’d been trained as a dancer as a child.I: Right, soCB: A ballet dancerI: Audiences were no problem?CB: No, and I had taken musical comedy dancing lessons, between filmsI: RightCB: And, I mean, Harry was much more frightened on our first night than I was. I sailed through it...I: A[…]

[…]the time, and then I went to work for - I’m not going to tell you his name - somebody asked me would I go to Brighton to make this terrible, terrible comedy, but I was over the moon for being asked.  I think I’d probably been out of work for about six months and I went and it was a terrible com[…]

[…]ncle called Archibald Nettlefold...Roy Fowler: Yes...Vernon Sewell: ...who owned Nettlefold studios, and Kay's Laboratory, and he owned the Comedy Theatre as well.Roy Fowler: Yes.Vernon Sewell: And it was through him I got into the movies. I started as a sound recordingengineer.R[…]