[…] I just say a word about NATTKE? NATTKE was a union primarily for craft workers in the industry, yeah? GM: 18:26 Theatre, film and television, yeah, yeah, yeah. RL: 18:27 People of that kind, they were rooted in the theatre sector. GM: 18:[…]
[…]ack to London.SF: How old are you now, roughly?Twenty-two, twenty-three.SF: Had the cinema, the industry – not the industry – but films, impinged a great deal on you?No. I mean films had, one of my first film memories is of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, which of course c[…]
[…]firms like Vinton W Vinton and Kingston lines in. That street in Charing Cross Road, small like small units. Yeah, you sort of dabbled in cameras and film printers. Tell usRoy Fowler 5:12 about the company that you went to work for. Well, I,Speaker 1 5:16 my father had to pay[…]
[…]apper : Separate, yes.Lew Grade : But we kept the name ITC. And I made numerous movies. Some not so successful... but I was very proud of some of the films that I made, I mean 'Capricorn One', 'The Eagle Has Landed'... Then I made 'On Golden Pond' which was a huge success...Alan Sapper : Great film,[…]
[…]n. So my mother left this place we were evacuated in - Newbury actually and I have some strange memories about there, you know, almost like the film that Rod Steiger was in when they were in the wheat(?) fields(?) before they get caught by the Germans, you know. Anyway, we came back to L[…]
[…] art school at Hornsey College of Art for two years, and then came out in drifted a certain amount. Now, in 1960, purely by accident, I fell into the film industry. I had been drinking with a friend of mine who had been at art school, who was by this time and assistant director working at Shepperton[…]
[…]the side of a roll of stock.. [Laughter][Laughter]On nitrate in those days. [Laughter]Yes.And the funny part about it is I’d never experienced a film fire until I got to Technicolor.[Laughter]Yes.That’s the strange part. But, mm, it was nothing for someone shout out ‘a bin’s alight’.[Laughter]1[…]
