[…]it was film related and I was a member of the National Film Theatre, I applied and strangely I was taken on. For quite a high level job which was the Head of Film and Television Acquisitions. So I leap-frogged a number of people I realised later. I was interviewed by ErnestLindgren, the original cur[…]
[…]Sir Lancelot Spratt in Doctor in the House. We ended up in the theatre looking at some rushes of the Schlieren Process. And I met a very young blonde-headed kid there: Peter de Normanville. And Arthur said there was nothing at the moment and keep in touch. But nothing happened.John Legard: You said […]
[…]antages. I took the positive again, I was put on the classical side, because there's a physical strain in my family in my late arm towards the deputy head of children, ladies college is it was a classical scholar of some repute. And her father, my grandfather, my father's father also was particularl[…]
[…]nt.Yes.And there was some very, very interesting people there at the time. Now V. C. Clinton-Baddeley who wrote and, mm God the name’s gone out of my head. The famous, oh, contemporary woman writer, Penelope... It will come to me, it will come to me later on was there.Mm, Lively?No, not Lively. No, […]
[…]bsp;there was three of us. Then, after a few months, I got an increase of half a crown I went up to 17 and six and and I was sort of made head page boy, of the other two, and, sorry about pause just about over. And as I say, there was a couple of page boys beside myself, and […]
[…]f his old cameras, a 16mm Bell and Howell and that's how I started to be interested in cinematography. I made a sort of school newsreel. I talked the headmaster into paying for the film and we made a school newsreel which we showed on speech day a couple of times. It sort of went down rather well an[…]
[…] -up, I was lost. In third play I was playing head boy at school, gets drunk in Act 1, sleeps […]
[…] lathes and drills. How to strip an engine, take the head off. The company also had an, Arabic school. As […]
[…] wrote and, mm God the name’s gone out of my head. The famous, oh, contemporary woman writer, Penelope… It will […]
[…]And somehow again, by fluke I think I got through I got to a grammar school. Quite a famous the Royal Grammar School of High Wycombe, which is run by headmaster is a model on a, on a private boarding school, I think he even had a few borders, and he had all these ridiculous sort of traditions of hou[…]
