[…]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[…]
[…];I mean, was there someone you could go and say, ‘Look, I want to do, ah. Doyou know somebody I could ask?’ or, how did it work?Yes. There was a head of editing, Roger Crittenden, who was very helpful, he was the second up the school as well. Colin. And, head of camera, Louis Wolfus[ph], and, w[…]
[…]here we spent six years. I don’t know if I said the name of the school in Horsham. It was called Heron’s Ghyll. It was a beautiful school; two lovely headmistresses. But then we went to South Africa, and I went to two schools in South Africa. I went first to a school called Herschel, which is outsid[…]
[…]ery difficult, although I can have a very unpleasant time like that. And the compensation was music. They had a very, very good music department. The head which Michael Caine stops was, am I speaking too loud? I'm not loud enough. Is that right? Yes, okay. A man called Ken Stubbs, who was ultimately[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]owler: And no formal training. It was always learning on the job.Maurice Carter: The only formal training for the art department was experience. But theadvantage of that time was that youngsters used to start much, much younger, come in asperhaps a teaboy into the art department at 14 and learn from[…]
[…]turned the camera upside down and reversed that shot so they appeared to be jumping out of the sea back onto the diving board which rather amused the head master but he said that's not really what I meant when I asked you to take some film.Peter Musgrave: Now you'd moved from Doncaster to Ryde and y[…]
[…] lathes and drills. How to strip an engine, take the head off. The company also had an, Arabic school. As […]
[…]p;I did in different parts.Unknown Speaker 15:00 For the country, but the one that will always linger in my mind is the film made in Craighead, which is a mining village in County Durham. Again, a new experience like the blast furnace, and I've never been to a mining village in my life. […]
[…]ers. That wasn't a good idea because I actually failed my course at university and, funny enough, failed graduates were what were perceived to be the head of Sound Department at STV's idea of the right kind of person to put in the team because graduates, at a functional level, graduates always wante[…]
