[…] Ipswich public school. But we were taken to the cinema but rarely our parents who both was religious I had an elder sister and a younger brother for films that they considered a suitable to see with cheddar kitten? in the jungle, things like that. Anything dramatic, romantic and so on was for[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]sed to act more-or-less as sort of employment help for us. I said, 'what's going?' And he said, "well the architectural world's a bit quiet but three film companies have rung up." So I thought, well let's give it a go.John Legard: So really the films started at a very early age then? While you were […]
[…] 27, 2008 02:38 PM BIOGRAPHY: Gordon McCallum entered the British film industry in 1935 as a loading boy for Herbert […]
[…];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[…]
[…]ald grant. The interviewer is Mike dick, on cameras, John Luton. The interview number is eight to nine. The date is the 24th of April 2023. And we're filming at the cinema Museum in Kensington, London, which houses the most remarkable collection of cinema memorabilia collected over the last 70 years[…]
[…]your date of birth 4 July ...Vernon Sewell: 1903.Roy Fowler: Nineteen hundred and three right, OK. We're going to concentrate mostly on the film industry, but it would be interesting to know family background to some extent, where and when you entered this life, your parentage and such lik[…]
[…]g a little radio and electrical shop, as a very young man...which he didn't do for long, he decided to give that up and move on. And he came into the film industry, and it was his suggestion, when I was just sixteen that he wanted to go into the film industry, and did, and I thought, "What a damn go[…]
[…]lly new cinema. That's to say, the new wave. And that had a huge impact on me. And I decided there and then this is what I want to do. I want to make films. But how do I make films? Well, to start with, I was sort of lucky in a way because I went to the American centre where that where there was a d[…]
[…] I learned more at Pathé, I suppose, than I did at any other place, other than in television, because what I learned was the discipline of writing to film, two words a foot, and I learnt it in a very hard school, taught by two Fleet Street newspaper men, one called David [s.l. Cole 0:04:42], the oth[…]
