Mike Bradsell

[…] I got a bit more sophisticated. By by about 1949, when I was about to leave school, I did a kind of promotional film for a local Yacht Club. I was a member of the club, not because I had did much in the way of sailing, but there were lots of attractive girls who were members of the club as well. So[…]

Interview

[…] I got a bit more sophisticated. By by about 1949, when I was about to leave school, I did a kind of promotional film for a local Yacht Club. I was a member of the club, not because I had did much in the way of sailing, but there were lots of attractive girls who were members of the club as well. So[…]

Interview

[…]e been doing ever since.Derek Threadgall  3:17  It's really important to ask your personal political views.Speaker 1  3:24  I'm a member of Labour Party, and I'm a trade union member. I joined the trade union since I started work. I joined the Labour Party before then joined the […]

Michael (Mickey) Hickey

[…]da, I think I ought to pack..." She said, "Well no, Mickey, I tell you what to do. Don't pack up. If you want to pack up then you've got to apply for Honorary Membership, but if you don't want to apply for Honorary Membership, don't pack up, be a paid up member." And she said, "What you do is, we ke[…]

Bill Cotton

[…]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 […]

Kitty Marshall (Hermges)

[…]maid, took me away. So it varied. Anyway, where am I?This is just coming up to the war years now.Oh yes. Well, you see when the war started you may remember that there was a terrific boost to the animation industry because animation was needed for films for the forces explaining things. And Diagram […]

Peter de Normanville

[…]ion came out of shell as a fully fledged Assistant Director of seven pounds 15 a week.Sarah Erulkar  7:49  If I can just interrupt, I can remember stating I've been coming for the interview, because we had a sort of open room there. Charles Sylvester was by the window. And I was sitting at[…]

John Aldred

[…]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 […]

Alan Izod

[…]He was away a lot.Alan Izod  2:27  Yes,  I don't recall my own father at all, not even in the in the haziest  way. And I always remember my stepfather as my father. And he is a man who has fairly colourful past he was. I have a letter written by the captain of the Windjammer whic[…]

Jack Hildyard

[…]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  […]
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