[…]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[…]
[…] I wasn't too long with the Leevers Rich but it was always in the back of your mind that you could Did you have a problem on the on the combine the chemical x with the magnetic with the 16? Yes. It was one of these things that it beats as it sweeps as it cleans. And in fact, you couldn't find a came[…]
[…]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.[…]
[…] he was a strange man, hunched back, deformed and he had an immense enthusiasm for German cinema and insofar as BIP is concerned he was very much the eminence grise. He, the managing director was a man called John Court Ackleby Thorpe and I don't think he was very interested in filmmaking particular[…]
[…]st significant production for the Mummers was Ondine by Jean Giraudoux and it was a huge hit. I'll never forget that John Tusa played the Knight, the eminent John Tusa, and subsequently I directed A View From The Bridge when it was first released as an amateur from under the Lord Chamberlain's, you […]
[…]s there.Sidney Cole: Yes.Carmen Dillon: but I much. I didn't like the other one, you know, the smaller one in Elstree.Sidney Cole: Oh MGM - not MGM - EMI...Carmen Dillon: Not EMI, another one.Unidentified Sound Recordist: Rock Studios?Carmen Dillon: What?Sidney Cole: British National?Carmen Dillon: […]
[…]d it immediately. No problem. This this appealed to me enormously. I'm thinking that that was the Ships Ships with Wings. I was going to work on San Demitro That guy was ill and could'nt do it. But I did work for time witj  Cavalcanti the Cavalcanti turned up there. Now he had been given contro[…]
[…] fields in company.with Laurence Olivier with Penelope Dudley Ward both of whom were working in a film calledDemi Paradise for Two Cities and I walked with them the way I might walk with my father or mother.   And i[…]
[…] Zealand director, was he?Tilly Day: Yes. He was the director of 'You must get Married' [actually, A. Leslie Pearce]Sidney Cole: Hmm. That reminds me, have you been abroad at all during the course of - what locations abroad have you been on? You mentioned, just previously, going to North A[…]
