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[…]ll in the family kind of thing, you know? And the film that was in production when I arrived there was Jack Buchanan and Betty Balfour, and I can't remember the name of the film but they were the two stars of the day. And from 1924 until 1927 we did a film at Stag Lane aerodrome with Sir Alan Cobham[…]

[…]am standing up, the other guy collapsed practically with shock, he was less than five foot particularly with this stooping thing.Roy Fowler: Do you remember who it was.Robert Beatty: No, I was just told it was an American actor, it was probably over finances.Roy Fowler: Black Limelight then was your[…]

[…]ity. My mother jumped at that and I was pushed off into this job which I absolutely loathed. I sat there in the office not knowing what to do and I remember my first day, and I was sitting in this office and they said if the phone rings answer it. So after a few minutes the phone rang and a voice sa[…]

[…] power and you couldn't go to anybody, I wasn't a member. Three weeks went by and I never got paid […]

[…]ries, in Grosvenor Place, where I worked very hard and went out in the big world. And my first real job was with a Harley Street Consultant.Can you remember what you were paid?Oh yes, it was a big sum, two pounds, ten shillings a week, it, that was because I was highly qualified.Which, what year was[…]

[…]it was marvellous. The work that was done. They would go in there and strike a set and build another one ready for shooting the next morning. And I remember a set on the drum the charge hand built it the wrong way round to the layout, and they went in there on over time in the morning, and turned th[…]

[…]urite, and Will Fyffe who had gone into films of course by that time, and Harry Gordon, the Laird of Inversnecky, there was Jack Radcliffe, I can't remember all of them. The ones I remember were Jack Radcliffe and Dave Willis because they were my favourites. And in the summertime they used to do the[…]