[…]s a famous film.Jean Anderson: And they both came over and saw these plays, and we had one Irish actress with us at the festival, who’d come from the Gate Theatre, where Lord Longford, had been the producer, the money for Hilton Edwards , and well I’d heard a lot about the Dublin Gate Theatre,[…]
[…], the busses used to turn round at the top of Camberley High StreetUnknown Speaker 24:32 was a sleepy place then, and Sandhurst, the main gate entrances were on the right, halfway down the hill. Don't they? You know where they are? Yeah, of course they I went not Swan again, and right at[…]
[…] who had the choice of travelling on a charabanc with a folding canvas hood and risking bad weather or compared to going on the train to Brighton, Margate, Bournemouth or where ever it was, they decided, they opted for the train and the railways slashed their day return fares on at the weekend in or[…]
[…]round. Anne, if it isn’t ungallant, may I ask you where and when you were born for the record?
Yah. I was born in, on December the 12th 1925 in Reigate in Surrey.
Mhm. And was it of a family that had any connection with...
No, my...
...pictures or entertainment of any kind?
Not at all[…]
[…]hn Legard: What year is this?Teddy Darvas: We are talking about 1941-42 and when we realised that we couldn't go to America, I had left Highgate School, I had been evacuated to North Devon to Westward Ho with the school, where incidentally, that was the time when I got to see every English[…]
[…]nsorship.[Break in recording]00:35:36 – 00:43:15 Un-perforated film stock in early cinema; perforating film was done by women in the studios; shuffle-gate Bell and Howell camera was the best made according to DD; viewfinders in cameras; DD discusses modern developments including scope and Technirama[…]
[…]won that - er - as best, I mean it’s amazing I mean I couldn’t believe it ‘Rising Damp’, we shot it in a tenement in a building in Notting Hill Gate during - during the Notting Hill Gate riots and of course I said “Thank goodness Don Warrington is with us” (laugh) Don used to go out “Hello bro[…]
[…]ery good actor and I were in it with Sam Kydd and, little Sam and a few other people, but I decided that the theatre – albeit it was only at the Watergate [in Buckingham Gate], a club theatre, theatre demanded too much for me. You had to really be word perfect, and it meant rehearsing for two weeks […]
[…]ose huge great steel ships alongside. The magic colours of navy blue and gold of the uniforms, and I can remember the huge George III crest above the gateway into the dockyard. Anyhow, from there and right the way through the war, I was fascinated by the navy, and eventually I went to a naval colleg[…]
[…] then four years later, my parents moved to Emerick Park, and on the morning, on my way to the old Metropolitan line, I became aware there was a film studio, And I thought, Oh, I'd like to work at films studio, and I'd love to work locally. So I wrote for a job. Got one a secretariat awareness, got […]
