[…]gs by by the pier. And some in the summer. They were on the what they call the cliff. So they really are you're sort of slow, right that not like big head. They had illuminated gardens at night, and there was a big floral clock, which made me about 12 feet in diameter. So there was colour everywhere[…]
[…]un, it had a single keeper and film programming was off to one side. In ‘71 Noble Frankland made a major restructuring of the museum and he appointed heads to Documents, Printed books, Photographs, Film and the person who had been Keeper of Collections became the Keeper of a new department which was[…]
[…]gs by by the pier. And some in the summer. They were on the what they call the cliff. So they really are you're sort of slow, right that not like big head. They had illuminated gardens at night, and there was a big floral clock, which made me about 12 feet in diameter. So there was colour everywhere[…]
[…]who Maxwell had taken down to Elstree in charge of production. Well he was in charge in of production but the title he had then...he was never called Head of Production, he never got the screen credit as Head of Production, he was the Scenario Editor. And he had about I should think eight writers un[…]
[…] school there. I'd already been to school for a year or so in Dagenham, and strangely enough, I we were myself and another boy were We were slightly ahead of the children in the school in Taunton. So in some of the lessons, I could just sit and read a book rather than than join in. But it was a happ[…]
[…]to Manchester to stand in for the FOM there for a year, which I did, Graham Turner. And then coming back to Bristol, the job became vacant. Cyril Morehead became the FOM. I became the Assistant FOM and was with him for three weeks when I was drafted as a FOM to Pebble Mill. From there, Film Un[…]
[…] landed at Blackpool at Squire’s Gate and I was sitting in the mess there and the evening paper came in, “Air Martial’s Plane Missing” was the banner headline, and what had happened was and poor old Trout, Drummond and Trout and all of the crew of the Lancaster - they were stopping on the Azores in […]
[…],Roy Fowler 3:48 how did your apprenticeship come about? Was that your desire or your ISpeaker 1 3:53 think my father saw the headmaster, and the headmaster thought I would be better in a trade than in clerical work. So I think was a toss up whether I became apprentice to cab[…]
[…] you back us? Jonathan Balcon 13:17 Yup. I think that in those early days I'm sure that's what happened. But then of course we jump ahead very slightly. and we get I think it's to 1923, '24 and he and Victor Saville and various other people including ... Oh, goodness, it'll come to […]
