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[…]out three and a half minutes and that was it. And I did progress because I was running these little films and I found that there was a library in a chemist just up the road so with my pocket money I used to go and rent a film for the weekend. [TIME 00.04.57] It was one of the silent classics that us[…]

[…]e so my A-level subjects were all science whereas I would have much rather have dabbled in the arts and I wasn’t terribly interested in physics and chemistry and pure mathematics, which were the four subjects.  But anyway I got through so that was all right.  And the next stage w[…]

[…]late ‘30s and into the War. So, the early part of the War anyway, I, I was in Ross, I was in school there. Convents, schooling, I can't claim any academic qualifications, but I did specialise in school quite a bit in music, and my mother seemed to think that I had some, I mean, and my mother was one[…]

[…]That was his, was it?DS: Yes, he’d thought of that. Yes.That was at the very beginning of the war, was it not?DS: It was. He’d thought of it, but it reminded him, because he had worked in the Garrison Theatre and had...JPH: In the First World War.DS: First World War, and had done a lot of music and.[…]

[…]nd ended up knowing a bit. And the good thing about Sequence was that it was a discovery for its editors.Also it wasn't in any way theoretical or academic, even though it did start at Oxford. So that for instance the French influence which came later to dominate English writing the about films and t[…]

[…] back I think, although the British Kinematograph Society was behind it, it was all theory stuff like, a lot of useful stuff mind you. Photographic chemistry, design, electrical engineering and all sorts of things, and we did tinker a bit with 9.5mm and I think we had an old Newman Sinclair. But tha[…]