[…] third man, which was directed by Carol Reed. And I used to they had a fire in the cutting rooms. As what happened Rector was the editor. And I can remember the old the firemen trying to restrain him from rushing into the burning cutting room. And when it eventually reemerged, he was clutching not t[…]
[…] Whereabouts did you go to school?NORMAN J. WARREN: Well, my schooling was a bit all over the place. I started off in a school of which I can never remember the name. It was in Fulham.It’s still there but I don’t know if it’s still a school. Very near Putney Bridge. Andit looked more like a sort of […]
[…]hell. The boom operator was is Tony Cripps, and the sound camera operator was Roy Charman. So, I couldn't believe it. You know, I was on actually I remember I visited the set on on the interview day and was a crane swooping in over the bed with Jimmy Bawden, the camera operator on on. AndJohn Guille[…]
[…]ve him half an hour, so you can just quickly read it to yourself; leave him alone, let him go, give him half hour and you’ll get the performance of a lifetime.” He came back and he got a round of applause. He was brilliant, brilliant.McG: And a gentleman?[18.35]HF: Oh, he’s a wonderful man. Too soft[…]
[…]ite Robert Burn’s poetry, [Laughter] but it’s the only association I’ve ever had with anything in the theatre at all. Right. And can you remember how the first stirrings or inklings or interests in, in the theatre and, and...?Oh at school? Mm, I used to write little plays. They must have […]
[…]at I knew I wanted to do, I always had.You were interested in clothes as a child?I was a child that was always drawing clothes and always... I remember my aunts beingvery amused because I was always telling them what to wear, I mean really quite young, like eight or nine.And you could tell styl[…]
[…]cal department. Then, in my later times, I suppose I worked with a cameraman at Ealing called Jimmy Court, Jimmy Balfour. Those are the ones that I remember that took pity on a young technician and helped. Although every cameraman I worked with, I didn't have any problems with. I think because they'[…]
[…] archive, I can’t imagine. So what sort of speed would those tapes go through, these great metal things? Very slowly. I don’t remember what they were classed at, but they must have been something less than thirty… they went round slower than thirty-three and a third. Mm.&n[…]
[…] in Stoney south, which is the actual shop I was born in, is now a Dickson’s radio shop, yeah. But we moved around an awful lot when I was a kid. I remember changing schools a great deal, and the reason for that, I think, was economic. My father. You know, first he had a business. In fact, he was a […]
[…]rk with me at once and it was a very fascinating experience.SPEAKER: M15I got to know me very well actually over the years because he was all sort of honorary direct from music. Pretty short films and he'd done a lot of work on crime and I admire him enormously. Towards the end of his life he he sta[…]
