[…]e head master said, you know, "Oh, you'll presumably go into a bank or something like that." So, I hadn't a clue what to do but I had an uncle in the film business and he said he could get me a job. And so I told this head master that I was going into the film business and he was absolutely astounde[…]
[…]I did, and my anticipating cover, as a maintenance engineer member for a number of years, I was employed here, and also our maintenance engineers and film studios, and in the film business generally, are, as it were working as individuals. And it was not for many, many, many years later that I was i[…]
[…]r was a widow by that time so I left school at sixteen.Jim Connock : And did you then have any further training, or did you have any training for the film industry, or did you...?Kitty Wood : No I didn't. I wanted to go into the film industry from the age of twelve, and I went to see Jimmy Ritchie [[…]
[…]t school. It was then a very, very, mixed school, socially very, very, mixed; went to read history as an undergraduate at Cambridge, and then studied film, as a postgraduate at Bristol, and was very keen to try and find a way to bring these two great interest of mine, film and history together, and […]
[…] talking about your experience with John Houston What's the next film with you you would like to talk about. OSSIE […]
[…]e in and that attitude of having a Union level of manning was kind of core to how ITV was at the time and, later on in my career when I started doing film work, film news, for instance, was done with a three-man crew - lighting, sound and camera operator - unless it exceeded two minutes and the two […]
[…];And I had two older sisters, and a younger brother. So I had plenty of people around with me. And nobody had any sort of influence for me to go into films, or theatre or anything. I hadn't got a particular desire to go to theatre. I wanted to film because I could see that you were able t[…]
[…] I started work in the' office of the Automobile Association in St James's Street as an office boy.Fowler/Lawson: Oh, well how come you got into films?Bill Girdlestone: Well, I was the original film buff. I had a home cinema at about 12. A local sweet shop started to sell film, six feet a […]
