[…]levision in those days. That was lot of experience. So then I got I came down and again went to the BBC, Eric Maschwitz funnily enough was head of light entertainment then and he was, although I had rewritten the comedy, it was showed to the "Belinda Fair" that he wrote, he wrote and he k[…]
[…] I should be glad he didn't change me in so we tried to sell this Mercedes with great difficulty. I think the difficulty was that Oscar had it in his head that this was the most precious car and that people would pay millions for it. So he had difficulty selling it because his price was, of course, […]
[…]ass the 11 Plus, in the school in the year that I was in in 1950. And I went to East Ham Grammar School, which had pretensions through the headmaster, who was a classics scholar himself. And he put great store on us, East London kids doing Latin and Greek and so on you know and[…]
[…]s how we got there. The pig farmer backed out a week before shooting. And so I was 3000 pounds missing. And I went to see the Midland Bank, the head offices and Poultry in Windsor street in the city. And the managing director said it Well, I've got to go ahead. I've got commitments to make the[…]
[…]job as a darkroom assistant. Working for Vogue fashion photographer. I never took the job up because prior to that, although I was given the job, the headmaster at the school chapel Walker, he was a Southgate Rotarian. And he said, your interest in photography, aren't you? There's another Rotarian w[…]
[…]ery good break indeed. Because in those days, the cranfill minute was a bekins field was still basking in all the former glories of the war. Vast overheads and unnecessary overheads in the studio and chippies and classrooms benefit as well. However, for me, it was absolutely marvellous because it wa[…]
[…]It might make a bit of a noise going through," you know. Anyway we ran it and the old Simplex projectors - in the base of the casting above the sound-head, you used to keep packed with wadding, to absorb the oil that leaks from the bearings, you know, so it's always a gooey mess there. And when we o[…]
[…] 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,[…]
