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[…]ee to which one had learnt or absorbed – not actually learnt – but you’d absorbed, building the soundtrack, adding sounds to give you adramatic feeling as opposed to being a faithful representation of how the sound sounded.And the thing of putting in an enormous number of tracks so th[…]
[…]lationships to later filmsRoy Fowler: I remember the film at the time, one can't help not know the play which wasarchetypal West end three-act comedy drama, Dodi Smith and the film was precisely thattoo. The only thing I would say about that film is how middle-class everything was, theaccents, the o[…]
[…]et Thompson 27:30 I was an extratwo or three months that was really alone in the newsroom. Yes, Roy Drew was head of the newsreel cutting drama centre. Remember, I remembered hardly at all.Anyhow.Yes, yes. Yes.So should we have a break?Frances Cockburn 27:56 Yes thing that ha[…]
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[…] I was at Cambridge, I didn't take a particularly good degree but I was one of the founders of the 'Mummers' with Alastair Cooke and it was the first drama group that had women in it and it was great fun. And there I met my wife, she was wardrobe mistress, Frances Curl, who was a Girton, in fact she[…]
[…]ood films at morning matinees including Broadway Melody of 1929 which I saw again recently on television, Sunny Side Up, Flying Down to Rio, oh and a drama about an airship rescue over 4 the North Pole called Dirigible. At the same time I can remember seeing many Felix the Cat cartoons which we[…]
[…]re Nick Goss and Connor. No, it wasn't Morris. He was from ITV, red headed guy with glasses. SeanUnknown Speaker 34:00 used to be head of drama at ATVSpeaker 2 34:02 Central. That's right. Really nice chat got known very well when we went to the States and went to Hollywood a[…]
[…] go back to Hungary where he knew the people. So we did that for a year, and we shot back because it was just before the war started. Oh dear, what a drama. With no money, on trains with wooden seats.Kay Mander: I know, I've been on them. From Budapest to Vienna. [laughs]Joy Batchelor: Not nice.Unkn[…]
