[…]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[…]
[…]My mother, as was General in those days was a housewife mother. And I have a very early memory of the First World War, because quite clearly, I can remember my father opening the window in the bedroom, in which they slept and I as a baby with the role of a Zeppelin going overhead, that must mean I w[…]
[…]s, I believe, very good.Fowler/Lawson: Now then, let's go onto editors, you know, who've come and...Bill Girdlestone: Well, you know I'm an honorary member. They made me an honorary member, I'm the only one apart from Bill Whatsisname, the American. They gave me that because I gave them so[…]
[…] who've come and… Bill Girdlestone: Well, you know I'm an honorary member. They made me an honorary member, I'm the […]
[…] So that expertise was in there, so you were creating stuff all the time. But within the context of that there would be issues, sometimes issues. I remember a title many many years ago, I think it was called Mary Reilly, where we continued to have spots in the process. These things kept manifesting […]
[…]was watching it! I: So, '74, that was quite early days for video, wasn't it? Half-inch? Was that the open reel half inch? R: Yes. I can't remember what the make was but yes. And then we made another film at the University based on the poem 'Not Waving, but Drowning', by Stevie Smith, which[…]
[…]l we say a lot of potential artistic abilities and she used to make the costumes when I started making my fairy tales after the war and what do you remember what the first film you saw.SPEAKER: M3I don't remember I know my parents were good cinema goers and they used to take me I remember seeing old[…]
[…]ly though you led a fairly protected, sheltered life as an adolescent until this happened?LK: Yes very. Very, but one grows up very quickly. I even remember cutting up a dead horse because we were starving in Warsaw and there were horses lying all over the place and so onRF: That was in late 1939, e[…]
[…]sp; He didn't play any sort of an active part, let's say in, in my life, apart from providing very generously, which he always did. I can only remember him doing some drawings or something like that once when he happened to be home at tea time. So there was, there was no close association. My f[…]
