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[…]o me during my finals ‘I do wish you’d work’. And I’d say ‘I’m doing my best’, I’d got no money so I had to work in a theatre full-time as a lighting electrician to earn the money to stay at university.SF: Good Lord.And he kept saying ‘I do wish you’d work’, and I didn’t know why, I thought ‘Are you[…]

[…]y you started work, you went to the venue and you started to set up the theatre. And you arranged with local authorities, you arranged with the local electrician to put the dimmer back in to the proj. rooms, so that you had control of everything. And we didn't do the drapes, the drapes were done by […]

[…] in and hope to hell the fuses held and if they didn't you blacked out manyplaces. And it was all very.... but you did all this yourself. You were an electrician, you were arostrum erector, you were a driver, you did everything yourself and then you had the responsibilityof getting that film back as[…]

[…]t's-his-name] was lighting all that time?" [Laughs.] And he said, "Oh...had I better go and apologise to him?" [Laughs.] But it [???]...I said to the electrician, [???] "[???] if we'd [???] we couldn't get [the dinners]?" You know...it was an amazing shot that he'd done, it was so atmospheric and so[…]

[…]ublicity for us!" I said "I..." He said, "I'll put it before the Directors and see how..." He said, "How many people?" I said, "Well, there'll be the electricians... have to have lights with us...er...be four...um...Spark, Reporter, Cameraman and Sound." Came back. He said, "You may have to double u[…]

[…]use I was in the Auxiliary Air Force at the time. I do remember that one morning, war was being threatened of course, we turned up, we'd only got two electricians. [laughs] So I said to Gav, "What's happened?" He said, "Well they're all in the Territorials, they've all gone on searchlight duty." So […]

[…] I was actually in a film studio. And Bill Norris this was a nice, rough guy . And I would say now, I suppose I think he'd be the sort  of Chief electrician. And I think that he got into the situation by the war , sort of thing . But anyway, he was a nice man. And he said to me, Oh, you don't w[…]

[…]re'll be a right royal battle going on between Orson Welles or not, he wasn't necessarily picking that battle, but he didn't help the Chief ETU  electrician objecting to him buying 10 pounds worth a steak to feed his hounds on in the dressing rooms.And itwhenever this particular person was ther[…]