[…]lmers Green area, north London and the date was 1941 and I went to all the local schools and so forth and then progressed to what was called thenSouthgate County Grammar School. So it was just a general old education. Didn’t like itmuch, but I was very average. I got average marks in everything; I c[…]
[…]ographyBECTU No. 320Interviewer: Alan Lawson (AL) and John Legard (JL)Date 03/03/19943 Tapes Side 100:00:00 – 00:12:00 Introductions; born in Margate, 1925; father was a solicitor for Southern Rail; lived in Margate until the war; as a child DW would got to the cinema every week; very little of[…]
[…]y, they had to sit in certain ways on this production. Any dust or any dirt in that production line would cause a problem in that film and it could negate a lot of the product. Understanding that and the stocks… I was working with the filmmakers in the end, you know the DoPs and the directors and th[…]
[…] CO of the unit.So you weren't really in the front line with the sergeants or anything?Oh yes, we were right up with them, oh yes. Full battalion obligated quarters.They operated more as director camera men?7?????? They just filmed what they saw. They had no directions, no instructions, theyjust wen[…]
[…]and said we have this report here is just come through from a place called Ealing the you telling you that the I can't remember there's a hair in the gate or something like thatall the way through I hope no it wasn't but we we had one roll. It was I inherited the camera from Jonathan Stedaall or who[…]
