[…]umont you just stuck a normal ordinary camera up in front of the monitor and filmed off themonitor and it was all very hit and miss and the thing I remember most about doing this is as onejob that we all loathed to do because of the difference in the phases of electricity, you found thatyou were get[…]
[…] father was in business there. And that is about it. I was there until I was about six or seven, and then we came back to England. And I distinctly remember being in England during the war, because we lived in a place called Gravesend in Kent, and I can remember my mother pulling me out of bed in th[…]
[…]r, who is living, who was an airline pilot and also flew in the War, and myself was born in India.And my parents divorced, do you know I can't even remember quite when, probably 10 or 11. I never knew my father terribly well, he served in India and most of time, I was brought up in England. I went t[…]
[…]w: And schoolingDavid Attenborough: Again my father was rather keen on grammar schools. He thought private schools were not to be encouraged, I can remember him saying there is no point in bringing up children if you're going to get rid of them at the most interesting time off their lives. He told m[…]
[…] was merely using it as a vehicle to further his political career. And I think it's a tragedy what's happened I know people like Harry Gillam given a lifetime to our business nothing you know and unless everybody makes sure that nobody can not that he cares. And of course nobody has any time for the[…]
[Side 1] [OI] The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Daphne Ancell, honorary member of ACTT, ACTT activist, one time Chairman of the Technicolor Shop. Interviewer Alf Cooper. Recorded on the eleventh of April 1989 at her home in Shepperton. Side 0ne.[OI] Daphne when a[…]
[…]t that time was a friend of the young actor who died during the war one working on next of kin, a man called Dickie Norris. And in those days, if I remember right, I think even Freddie Young was working somewhere out there at one stage, but they were making, quote, A quickies. And I spent a consider[…]
[…]vie town for. In this office. So what I'd like to do is I would like to give this list to you of all these people who have been so brilliant in their lifetime and are being thrown on the waste heap by being made redundant. I said, now there's all their names, what they do, what they can, and then te[…]
[…]girl of about seven they used to escort me when I first started. And. My brother who's two years younger than me. He started when I was seven and I remember being terrified having to look after my brother who couldn't have cared less. The age of five I mean if you if he didn't go to West Harrow went[…]
[…] as you passed your trial after a year it was lifetime re ally. The feeling was you, you’d, it was […]
