[…]et and now consider myself fully Odeon-Branded. I proudly wore them on many later premieres at the Odeon when Peter often invited me to assist as an “honorary member” of the management team and would continue to do so in my “second stint” with Odeon which provided the grand finale to my cinema life.[…]
[…]s day, you mean, I find it difficult to understand where the politics in Ireland are because the Labour Party in Ireland is the toffs party. So in my lifetime, they have never formed a government. I don't think they ever have you me. But in my time, they've been in coalitions with Fine Gael and Fian[…]
[…]bsp;Can you explain Langlois? [He talks a bit over Clyde]CJ: OK. We can go down that path. The history of Langlois and Lindgren always dominates FIAF. It continues to do so. Lindgren was the, in my view anyway, the founder of not only the National Film Archive, one of the first of the original […]
[…]ve a sort of rough, ready boys. You know, one has especially from America. I hate to say this in comparison the Hollywood directors I've worked in my lifetime, very few had what I call a cultural background. Forgive me mention about culture I admire and respect this very much, because it's given me […]
[…]e I went…in my closing days in the Army, I went to an American university at Biarritz, an American university, that the Americans had established for members of their forces, that gave some guest scholarships to British servicemen, and I was lucky enough to go there, and I did a six month course of […]
[…] I joined the BBC I was brought into the BBC as an announcer because I had an impeccable standard southern English accent and that was the accent I remember in my father who by becoming an officer in the First World War had adopted the conventional Officer's Mess accent. Now if I look back on it and[…]
[…]er, I did The Ted Heath Band Show, which was just wonderful, it was something out of this world, something I shall never forget and a treat in a lifetime to do and I shall never forget it.What especially pleased you?DS: It was just doing this marvellous music, this wonderful band, this huge ban[…]
[…]a lot of really useful donations to IWM, but also participated in a variety of international forums: International Federation of Film Archives [FIAF] and others, to engage with other film archives and people who wanted to develop the field for collection. Paul Sargeant I can claim no cred[…]
[…] yes, my father's eldest brother. Yeah. He said, Well, you know,Unknown Speaker 1:13 why doesn't he come in with me? Now, I can't quite remember now where his workshop was.Unknown Speaker 1:21 I can't, I can't place myself before the war,Unknown Speaker 1:26 if yo[…]
[…]han, than you expect. I remember thinking after 1979, and particularly when labour didn't win in 1992, would ever see a Labour government again in my lifetime, then, of course, we have 1997. Again, I was starting to feel that way. Recently, but I think the result in the last election gives us all a […]
