[…]e been. Anyway, he insisted on going for a take when we weren’t quite ready. And he did this take and he cut in the middle of it, and he screamed his head off at the extras. He didn’t realise they were extras I don’t think, I don’t think he knew which were which really but he screamed his head off a[…]
[…] that's why he'd lost his hair, he shaved all his head off for a part, it never grew back again. […]
[…]ovies. 'Kissing Cups Race', which was later converted to sound.Roy Fowler: Yes. Who were some of the technicians, then, in the senior positions? Heads of departments?Vernon Sewell: Well Geoffrey Faithfull was a cameraman and his assistant was Arthur Grant, who became quite a good cameraman[…]
[…]ney Cole: Hmm.Tom Peacock: So I said, "Well that won't be no good." Well we happened to have some bottles, wax bottles, you know, to crash 'em on the head didn't you?Sidney Cole: Hmm.Tom Peacock: So I said to him, "What about them bottles? I'll melt them down and I'll try and do what you want me to […]
[…] -up, I was lost. In third play I was playing head boy at school, gets drunk in Act 1, sleeps […]
[…] bottles, wax bottles, you know, to crash 'em on the head didn't you? Sidney Cole: Hmm. Tom Peacock: So I […]
[…]for me when I'm far too old to still be there in a nursery, and I went to the wonderful Broomfield House School which still exists in Kew. Terrifying Headmistress called Mrs. Rose, but everything else was hunky dory. It was a wonderful little school. But then I couldn't stick Mrs. Rose anymore. And […]
[…]ad special machinery developed by ICL. ICL was going to be England’s big answer to IBM, and effectively, I arrived at the IWM, with David Penn as the Head of my department at about the time when it was becoming clear that although all of this kit was wonderfully clever and intricate, and imaginative[…]
[…], and they hadn't started Latin andI certainly hadn't started Latin. I was way ahead on the three Rs, like allScots boys.I was very Scottish. I had a broad […]
[…] Wright was so amazed that I'd got through the police that she - she was immediately very taken with me, and got me to see Ian Dalrymple who was head of the unit. The Crown Film Unit I think it was then called, it had been changed from The GPO Film Unit. And he was also very taken with my initi[…]
