Dennis Main Wilson

[…]well, whereas we was talking more [faux cockney] “a bit like that darlin’ you know”. And I went there at 11 and in four years, no, in six years, they hammered a) good manners and [b] knowledge into us. The standard of teaching was superb. The sports record of the school was superb. I got the odd med[…]

Wendy Toye

[…]funny little places, where is the place that is past Denham, there is a little tiny film studio that is past Denham, we did some there. I did some at Hammer.LW: Can you name a few as wellWT: Do you remember don't forget the gums, mum Roundtrees gum, with the little boy. I did some hair shampoo which[…]

Daphne Shadwell

[…]as that one worked out, Georgie said I don’t need the group, Daphne. So they came but we sent them home, to their delight. But we got very badly hammered and from then on – that was probably why Ready Steady Go! went down, thinking about it, because it became so expensive.JP[…]

David Attenborough

[…]d Living Planet, we even moved onto electronic. I'm not too keen on video cameras for a number of reasons, one of which is you can't mend them with a hammer. But in Trials of Life we wanted to do a lot of low light stuff and wanted to get flashing fireflies and so on. And that was even beyond the se[…]

Patrick (Paddy) Carey

[…]he camera with one hand keep a constant speed and pen untilPaddy Carey  32:09  virtually Yes. Well, I mean, being able to pan until the two hammers needed a good deal of embodied engagement.Unknown Speaker  32:22  But can you remember what you're learning?Paddy Carey  32:25 […]

Frances Cockburn

[…] offer from the blue to go andedit. And this was the first task I ever had of editing. A film, a feature film was being made by john coffee coffee at Hammersmith. And I just up and went left the Tron film in it where I was really was, was to do at the time but left the crown film that went off onto […]

Charles Potter

[…]r privileges all over the country was most impressive. They poured in the halls of their wives and families and their hundreds and our many audiences hammering between 1002 1000 when attending these shows, I definitely felt in the auditorium the effect on staff morale, on such films as blue Powell a[…]

Alf Cooper

[…] an up and downer with him on the IB shop floor and it got to the political side of trade union life and this, that and the other and we were arguing hammer and tongs and suddenly he suddenly stopped andsaid ‘we’ll wait, go back and read the Marx and Engels more you’ve got it wrong’. [Laughter] I sa[…]
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