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[…] in Hackney in 1926 which was the year of The General Strike, of very nice par ents, whose parents were […]

[…] son of the, he was the son of the, the General. Yes. Uncle Bill, he was, and his daughter, his […]

[…]is his earliest film 1954 orders or orders co starred him alongside said James, although they had very little material working together. And I think, generally it wasn't regarded as a particularly good film. It certainly isn't regarded as a classic and he had a minor part as a as a bandleader. But t[…]

[…]name and where you were born and when.RENÉE GLYNNE: I am Renée Alma Glynne, nee Renée Galler. I was born in Hackney in 1926 which was the year of The General Strike, of very nice parents, whose parents were living in Russia at the time of the pogroms and left in, say, 1890, something like that. Went[…]

[…]that.Yes. Any particular subjects there that you selected?Mm, I think English more than anything.Y es.You know Literature.Oh yes, English.But, it was general, general.What, do you remember the actual part of London because that’s what we’d want toput down, yes?Well, Sidney Street is what I seem to r[…]

[…]d with a degree of incompetence that is mind-blowing.Sheila Whitaker Page 45MY: Yes, I don’t think it’s confined to just this area, I think it’s generally rife.SF: Well, it’s called Thatcherism and capitalism and all the rest of it. That doesn’t meanthat Boris Yeltsin is our alternative.No, no,[…]

[…]o much easier at the end of the day.  You needed an hour you would say to everybody on the floor: ‘Look is it OK we want to go on an hour?’, and generally speaking everybody would say ‘OK’, but if somebody would say: ‘look I’ve got to get home because   ra ra ra’, OK go, and then, if we ne[…]

[…]s very chic. SC: Very enjoyable then? DM: Lovely. I had a gorgeous time. SC: How long did you stay there? DM: About six months. I generally would stay six months. I got so tired, I collapsed at the end of six months. SC: You’d been working too hard? DM: I met my husband[…]

[…]ater on. It was the time of the depression and everybody. . . . when was the Hunger March?R. F. I’m not absolutely sure. Was that before or after the General Strike?C.D. 1926. Well that was the period I came back.R. F. Can I just ask you to remember what you can about designing for silent films. Did[…]

[…]igsaw puzzle, each scene is done in little bits, each bit has to fit smoothly and we’re the ones to make it fit. We have to makenotes for the editor, generally, you have to be very observant.1: Oh yes. Of course in those days they’ve got no, every actor had to smoke, because he didn’t know what[…]