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[…] sack and I stayed on! And after another - whatever it was - a year or nine months, I finally got a break into the cutting rooms with Gaumont-British Instructional, on the top floor of Lime Grove. And I made all the mistakes that you do when you're training to be an editor. Dropping the centre out o[…]

[…]when—when were you born, and what sort of childhood did you have, and what your parents were. CHARLES SMITH: Well, I was born in 1920, May, in Rugby in Warwickshire. And my father kept a photographic chemist's shop. And so we had, uh, sold cameras, and I served customers with films and loaded t[…]

[…] And I used to go there 2 or 3 times a week and we used to make 16 mm, everything was 16mm black and white of course in those days, and that was very instructional really, learned quite a lot at that. And funny enough there was a fellow there, a young boy about the same age as me, who did, I think h[…]

[…] Because they were afraid - apart from Lime Grove - a lot of it was political I think. Lime Grove was empty you see, when the war started, apart from GB Newsreel had a place there, GB Instructional were there, but it was virtually empty. It wasn't boarded up or anything, but... there was a newer bui[…]

[…]I did a few railway films. Yes. With john.Unknown Speaker  9:37  That's right. Yes, becausePaddy Carey  9:39  it was about really instructional films.Alan Lawson  9:42  At that time, we were doing a series of rail reports and a rail report number six on a seven with joh[…]

[…]l Development Association were hoping to attract visitors from America and a version would be made for that purpose another version would be made for instructional purposes in parts of Africa and perhaps another version still for British schools. This explains the number of edits and explains whethe[…]

[…]fully was was a composer William Walton, who may have been a personal friend of Olivier's anyway, stayed at his house when he was here. He lived in Rugby. And it was my business to give him music links, which I wrote out by hand or typed ig I could getget a typewriter and send them to him. And the m[…]