[…]d in Margate until the war; as a child DW would got to the cinema every week; very little of his early life had anything to do with his career in the film industry, when he left the army in 1947 he knew he didn’t want to work in an office; Southern Rail had a small film unit for training under Water[…]
[…]?Philip Leacock: Bedales.Stephen Peet: So, did you do, then, at school, any specialised training, or - put it this way, why did you decide to go into films? Was it at somebody's suggestion, or somebody you met?Philip Leacock: Um, It really started possibly because they had a very nice darkroom at th[…]
[…] is Joe Langley. The interview our is Mike deke. On camera is our CO show. The interview number is 415. The date is the 28th of April 2022. And we're filming at her daughter's Claudia's home in Wimbledon.Unknown Speaker 0:23 Okay, Joe, can you tell me where when you were born? I was born[…]
[…]at school and Keeble College were you a greatmovie goer? You had an interest in films then or did that come later? Norman Swallow: No, I had an interest in films&nbs[…]
[…] a long time before I mean recognizing people in the film has made them an idea that was just as […]
[…]chool. Of which the most famous old boy was William Friese Green. So I was off to a good start. Then inference is correct.BG Where did you first love filmsCY My dad he used to take us through the pictures and when he got home he'd have mini quizzes I think know little puzzles and quiz questions base[…]
[…]ber 1996. Side One.We’re going.Yes. Okay.Right.Right Mary, tell us about your childhood, where you were born, how you, educated and how you came into films?I was born in Cornwall in October 1919 and very shortly after that, about three months or less, went to New York with my father, mother and my e[…]
[…]1926 19. And I actually did a programme once the cinema the you know, the festival did our kinda festival the British cinematographers and I ran some films there. And I found myself standing on this stage and thinking about stuff. You know, I was born almost where I'm standing now talking to people […]
[…]typing. But my mother always used to say to me ‘Well what are you going to do with your life, what are you going to be’? And I said ‘I'm going in the film business’.Ah, that's what I was going to ask you, what, what prompted you to do that?Well I always loved the theatre, I suppose like every young […]
