[…]uns pointing out, it really did look something. In fact, as one knows the the German just practically jumped over the thing when the time came. And I don't think they were held up for 10 minutes, but the I got some, I got some fascinating material there, both both movie but also stills. I took a lot[…]
[…]n for being relatively doing me violence, totally deserved.  [laughter] And when I was 16, I ran away from the Christian brothers and came to London, and I've been here ever since. RL: 2:25 Oh, that's fascinating. You ran away. GM:  Yes. RL: Because- I thought that was […]
[…]TT History Project. Nancy Thomas, television producer/director. Interviewer Norman Swallow. Recorded on the twenty-fifth of January 1991.Well, if you don’t mind, you know, when and where were you born?I was born in India in 1918.Where?I was born in a little place called Ranikhet, partly because, you[…]
[…]Alan Lawson, recorded on 24 November 1993SIDE 1, TAPE 1Alan Lawson: When and where were you born?Freddie Francis: I was born in the wilds of North London, Barnesbury, north London on December 22nd, 1917 and on the night of the 22nd December 1917, when I was born, there was a Zeppelin raid over Londo[…]
[…] about your family life, where you were born, schooling and how you came into the film industry. AY: Well I was born in the East end of London, my father was a watch maker, watch repairer and my mother was a put upon housewife. Looking back I would say she was a slave. There w[…]
[…] producer’s minds, that a movie had to be in colour once it became practical to shoot in colour. I still loved shooting black and white stills, but I don’t think I… well I know that I didn’t shoot any black and white after I started working in movies. I didn’t shoot a black and white movie. Today I […]
[…]out it a bit I then wrote an article for the union, it was ACT in those days, for the union journal which was called, in fact Sue’s just found a copy Don’t Let The Incinerator Claim Our Golden Age and inviting comments and contributions and an interest, a show of interest from other people. Well, in[…]
[…]ohnny Speight: None that I can, I went to a place that was called a school, a broken down Academy in Canning Town which I left at 14 years old ,and I don't think I learned much there except that looking at the teachers and whatever, I wasn't interested, I came out of there not being, I looked on it […]
[…] to England in 1947. My father-  Darrol Blake  0:39  Partition ?  Waris Hussein  0:40  Pardon? No. This is the big irony of our lives here. We actually came over because my father was a diplomat. And he was working for the British Indian go[…]
[…]u were born? Yes, I'll go on to describe how you came to be in the film industry.Joe Mendoza  0:22   So I was born 921 in southeast London.event, what date 29th of January, when the query and my family were sort of we in trade, we had a whole chain of fashion in Photoshop, confectione[…]
