[…] Lion. And I thought, "Well that's a pretty good idea." Because I'd read only recently that the highest paid man in the world was Louis B. Mayer, the head of MGM, and I thought, "Well this film lark, probably has got something going for it." And it sounded a bit more interesting than estate agents. […]
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[…]niques of high speed cinematography. So again, I added a little To my knowledge, and having done that, I felt an urge to go back to East Africa. So I headed once again for East Africa, this time for the colonial office, but again, hoping to get eventually into the colonial Film Unit. I actually beca[…]
[…] -up, I was lost. In third play I was playing head boy at school, gets drunk in Act 1, sleeps […]
[…]; Well then that’s, that’s the explanation. Yes, yes. Let’s turn to financial support. We’ve, it’s cropped up under a number of other headings but I wonder if we can turn to outside financial support, not union but to organisations or individuals because you have mentioned individual[…]
[…] 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 […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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 […]
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