[…]y running the department thenI: Can I ask how you came to do theatre studies?ED: Yes, I met, the real actual catalyst was Henry V. I remember, to this day, when I first saw that. It was just after the war, a few weeks before the end of the war. I think I was in the third form, and we […]
[…]cans. [Laughter] You know, I had to start atthe bottom and I worked in, then I went to work with next to an old lady, she was an old lady, I always remember she had a big bun on her hair and I had to make double hole pin joints to, double hole perforation joint, and you stick this pin in the middle,[…]
[…] every week in the village hall, so I saw a great number of silent films, we used to go every week. And it was extraordinary because, one of them I remember particularly was 'Carmen' with Pola Negri, and years and years and years later I worked with Pola Negri on a film called 'The Moon Spinners' bu[…]
[…]0 Grosvenor Square and the, the flat, this was interesting, the flat belonged to Lady Dorothy Paget, who was a well known racehorse trainer. Do you remember the name?Yes, that’s right, mm.And it had a marble bathroom.[Laughter]Mind you we were in bunk beds, which was a bit of a letdown because my le[…]
[…]a city office as an office boy. I won't tell you how many stamps I stole. During that time I used to take the Boy Scout, a little magazine, you may remember - and in it I saw an advertisement one day with a handsome young man in naval uniform with a ball of the earth, with his foot on the ball, the […]
[…]used for VistaVision and Technirama (VistaVision with a squeeze lens); SW states that the last Technicolor subject was Romeo and Juliet in 1952; SS remembers shooting VistaVision on location for American producers; the three-strip cameras were converted to VistaVision cameras but they also had light[…]
