[…]make ends meet. Father's painting materials were always of the best and most expensive. I don't know if he ever sold any of his paintings. During his lifetime, though he was generous in giving them away to admirers. His library was extensive, and ever augmented with up to date and rare and out of pr[…]
[…]ol. And a lot of funny, actually, because, because I was always, I always been a bad, bad sailor. At least it was a bad sailor in those days. And I remember the destroyers, of course, they have have a horrible motion, actually, as I can imagine. You know, they're long, slender pencil like things, ac[…]
[…]ou were with him or a bit later - do you know?Philip Leacock: That was later.Stephen Peet: Because, I say this because you went abroad with other ACT members on a job with paid expenses only, in '38. Could you tell me about that? Because you must have been a member by then. This is to Spain...Philip[…]
[…]ft and he said when you've got a year's experience and we'll give you a job, which was the usual thing and stillhappens I think. And my father then remembered that Maurice Elvey who was quite a friend of him, owed him a return kindness because my father had given him introductions when he went to Ti[…]
[…]s, I believe, very good.Fowler/Lawson: Now then, let's go onto editors, you know, who've come and...Bill Girdlestone: Well, you know I'm an honorary member. They made me an honorary member, I'm the only one apart from Bill Whatsisname, the American. They gave me that because I gave them so[…]
[…] all these people who have been so brilliant in their lifetime and who’ve been thrown on the waste heap by […]
[…] first camera with Desmond Dickinson and I think the other member of the camera department was Ted Chand and that […]
[…] who've come and… Bill Girdlestone: Well, you know I'm an honorary member. They made me an honorary member, I'm the […]
Author: Melanie Williams, (School of Art, Media & America Studies, University of East Anglia)  Screen costume has now been firmly […]
[…] other companies doing similar things. Sometimes we just organise a pay-day Friday out just where possible. I: It's funny for me because I can remember going in to the Campans so you would never have been? R: Unfortunately not. I've heard plenty of stories, mind you! I would have loved to […]
