[…]for, Ronald Neame  2:51:56  I suppose about 12 weeks, maybe 14 as little as it was, it might have been longer. i It seemed a lifetime. But finally we finished. And the last thing was Shawn coming to the studio where he did a prologue for us. And he signed his name. And I'm a[…]
[…]al things a bit of woodwork and a bit of shorthand typing. Away. Can you remember when you started in the film industry. Well yes I can because some it&nbs[…]
[…] that job to be perfectly honest, but it certainly interested me.MW: Very good. We'll explore your time in the BFI in a moment. But before we do that FIAF [International Federation of Film Archives] is an organisation which was established in the 1950s I think maybe.AF: No no no no no:  1930s.M[…]
[…]itical Editor of the Company. Jimmy fought East Renfrewshire for the Labour Party in 1959 before going off to go into business, Radio Clyde. Founding member of Radio Clyde in '72. Raith Stewart worked with me as a researcher, he had been a Press Officer for the Conservative Party. Noel Dolan was a P[…]
[…]out the culture. R: Well, the Sunday Post particularly. Well, I'll even take you before that! I did work experience on the Evening Times and I remember one day going to work on the Evening Times and there was a fire out the east end of Glasgow somewhere. I can't, it was a flat somewhere so they[…]
[…] that I had experienced. In the studio I was always conveying the works I loved. The actual ballets and the whole process of being a dancer.During my lifetime, dance as a universal human phenomenon has moved from being a not very respectable occupation to a really proper career. Dance people can hav[…]
[…]my parents told me, Captain Scott held me in his arms, and I was the last baby he probably ever saw. This was quite a legend in my childhood. And I remember recounting it to the admiration of my chums. My mother died when I was five, my brother was three, two. And we were brought up by various […]
[…]some months there and then finally was called up and went into REME  Royal electrical and mechanical engineers. Spent, I've never been able to remember exactly how long I've put off my I think it was  about two and a half years. In REME, but after the first six months of my time in REME th[…]
[…]film that was censored was destroyed, [I’m] furious because there was some great stuff. 1973-73, Till Death Do Us Part fifth series.And then I became honorary godfather to Cambridge Footlights that year, which was a pleasant jump from Alf Garnett to slightly more pleasant company, this was 1974. And[…]
