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[…];of cinema surrounded most because you were in London. And of course some one remembers the immediate pre-war period when there were these fantastic cinemas like the […]

[…]ir share of broadcasts but by and large it was a theatre a week plus sometimes 2 Sunday concerts. They worked very hard in those days. One period I remember the Cine Variety, my father was doing 7 shows a day between the Dominion, Tottenham Court Rd., and the Elephant and Castle, starting at midday […]

[…]wasn't for me what I wanted taught.Unknown Speaker  3:59  So in 1932 then you really started 1932 I started in the film industry. Can you remember? Can you remember much about that? I don't remember much about the film I started on. I can never remember the name of it.Unknown Speaker  […]

[…]. W. H. Auden had been there just before and at that point he hadn't been regarded as respectable. His early poems came up to the school library, I remember someone saying I couldn't teach him much, I couldn't see that he could teach me anything, he produced a book of poems called the Orators part o[…]

[…]rom these fantastic people and then, maybe for about a year, I was getting more and more outdoors, more and more outdoors and they created (I can't remember what happened) but there was another crew made up and I ended up going onto News so I jumped from Assistant Dubbing Mixer to Sound Recordist bu[…]

[…]actresses, and we spoofed the filmmaking techniques of the styles of six different countries. In the early 60s,Rodney Giesler  2:20  as I remember when that came out, and it caused quite a lot of attention to be shown in the press, you know, for a shortChristopher Miles  2:26  Ye[…]

[…]e.Peter Musgrave: Were you and Peter Handford given ordinary ranks to enable you to cruise round and not be challenged.John Aldred: We were not given honorary ranks. We had the most impressive document, an identity card, and it was signed by General Eisenhower and I'm only too sorry I don't have it […]

[…];Darrol Blake  1:46  Can I, can I take you back? Can you go back to before the war? Yeah, I know you weren't there, but can you remember anything about what your parents did in the film industry? Kent Houston  1:56  Yes, my father was a sound engineer and[…]

[…] O N D S. Television producer director, ex-BBC TV, Thames TV, London Weekend Television, now retired. The interviewer record this is John P Hamilton, member of the BECTU History Project committee, the date Monday the 15th of August 1994. This is tape one side one. So this is JPH on the left channel,[…]