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[…]; DW on meeting still photographer Norman Parkinson; DW states that the stock used on the Paddington tests was ‘five-four’, circa-1961; Edgar Anstey, head of British Transport Films, was displeased that the whole film had been printed in colour.00:09:00 – 00:18:25 DW talks about Joan Littlewood’s Sp[…]

[…]orge, did you know George?Yes, yes, yes.Well, Joe come up the museum to see me one day he said ‘I’ve been trying to trace you’, he said and he’d rung head office so he’d found where I was working. And, you know, we had a drink and a conversation then he went home. And I had some booksof his and[…]

[…] fired him. So then they brought in an old timercalled Roy Ward Baker who... she quite liked that because she could sit down and talk and go into big heads [?], which is what she wanted. The other man, the other director, wanted to make it more interesting. The picture, I might tell you, was a flop,[…]

[…]d he got louder and louder and in the end she took him out, she said come on Freddy we've got to get out of here, and she dragged him from behind the head table and took him home.  But it was a bit embarrassing for Adolf Menjou but I don't think Freddy would have done it if he hadn't been drunk[…]

[…]ponsible for all the university buildings. And so we lived in Cambridge from then on. I had a free education at a posh school because my aunt was the headmistress of it. [laughter] It was an expensive school which I would never have gone to otherwise, so partly, my accent is partly a result of that.[…]

[…]t into the army. They had a psychologist called Raven who 's invented the matrix test and they had somebody talking about the matrix test and Raven's head came round and he always brought the house down because he looked completely mad. And they decided they must have a psychiatrist who didn't look […]

[…]od : No I didn't. I wanted to go into the film industry from the age of twelve, and I went to see Jimmy Ritchie [James Ritchie], who later became the head of British Transport [Films]. But he was a young man, himself starting in the film industry at that time. And he was very discouraging and said t[…]

[…] of meetings History Project meetings usually take place at BECTU Head Office, 373-377 Clapham Road, London SW9 9BT. Meetings usually […]