[…]ell. It was strange because the artist who taught him, they used to project the image of someone on canvas and then paint over that and I can remember two large paintings in my grandfather’s house of his father. I liked that. And so yes, I think we were. My uncle Charlie was a pant[…]
[…]ship and ended up in Shoreditch, Teck, it was actually nothing to do with films, it wasfurniture and cabinet making. It was one of my cause I remember one of my first big disappointments, I took the the examination, the test papers at Shoreditch tech, Technical College, beautiful building, arc[…]
[…]in it. And I said “well, why don’t you have a new hat?” and he said “no, I’ll mend the hole” so he sewed up the hole in the hat, and (laughs) and I remember we met someone in a pub or a bar once, and er…the guy said (attempts accent) “aren’t you a peanut planter?” because they were doing a peanut sc[…]
[…]emper. And my mother and father, they used to fight like cat and dog, day and night, I mean, they were at each other’s throats. I remember once - looking back on it now it is funny but I remember he was chasing her around the garden once with a cut throat razor and he was saying ‘y[…]
[…] archive, I can’t imagine. So what sort of speed would those tapes go through, these great metal things? Very slowly. I don’t remember what they were classed at, but they must have been something less than thirty… they went round slower than thirty-three and a third. Mm.&n[…]
[…]935.Alan Lawson 0:47 Now,did you have any schooling before you were evacuated?Charlotte Jennings 0:53 Not that I can really remember, although, obviously was some kindergarten year. But yeah, I left for the States. In September of 1940. You left Eastern. This is my mother. An[…]
[…] died because he'd been helping, so I sort of took on that job as well, to help in the business. My mother was virtually neurotic about uniforms. I remember when I was thirteen, joining the Boy Scouts and coming home with the Boy Scout uniform on. My Mother started screaming and said, "Take it off! […]
[…]ng overseas.[Break in recording]00:08:35 – 00:09:46 DD talks about recording in the studio overseas[Break in recording]00:09:46 – 00:21:30 DD founder member of the ACT; improvements made by the union; difficulty becoming a cameraman in the film industry; calls for an apprentice scheme for young peop[…]
[…]allasey which is just Opposite Liverpool. My father was a sort of middleman businessman in Liverpool and when I was 4 he went off to the war. Don't remember much about the war except it seemed very unpleasant. He fell down a hole, got wounded, because we used to go to France for my holidays, and thi[…]
