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[…]the result was that I spent from September 1939, till early 1946. Alan Lawson  2:40  And the artillery, you have any great interest in films or cinema?Unknown Speaker  2:45  school?Robert Angel  2:46  Yes, I always was interested from an early age in the theatre an[…]

[…]e bit about your early life. But before you started your professional career in film. Where we were born into your parents. Yes quite well I was born in Lo[…]

[…]at you’d made this choice by now?VM: I was, yes. I felt ready in myself to start earning my living and getting on with life, yes.JR: So, there was no filming at this stage – this was all theatre?VM: Yes. It was 1950, I was in London at the Haymarket Theatre. In those days, there was a wonderful thea[…]

[…]ly have to go to get some silks or things for lampshades or things, or different things for the set, you know?  And that was my first job in the film industry.ALAN LAWSON: So really your transport problem was partly solved then of getting to Elstree?HARRY MILLER: Not really, I still had to catc[…]

[…].comSpeaker 1  0:17  The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project, Charles Potter administrator, British Transport films,Unknown Speaker  0:30  Interviewer John legardUnknown Speaker  0:33  recorded on the sixth of June 1989Speaker 2  0:38 […]

[…] Aug 12, 2008 12:43 PM BIOGRAPHY: Cyril Pennington-Richards entered the film industry in 1932, working on short advertising films before […]

[…]tarted a radio business, which was very successful and I made a lot of money. I got a bit bored with it and I had a cousin who was making advertising films and he asked me if I'd like to join them. So I went in with them, with his two partners and him and we started in um - in fact what we did, do y[…]

[…]he was very talented, when she wasn’t working for Edgar Wallace, mainly in the theatre,LH: Edgar Wallace, apart from being a writer, was presumably a film director-WR: Well for some time – I was so young Les that I don’t really know – he almost took over Beaconsfield Studios, which we were living al[…]

[…];Have you had an extensive career in the particularly in the sponsored documentary field, we probably will call it. I know in fact that you must have filmed in pretty well every continent in the world, including Antarctica. And apart from a lot of awards for your films, you also have four nomination[…]