[…] then the secretary of the Zoological Society and I was very happy about that, because of my interest in zoology. So we started out my first job. I remember the first day even I came prepared with sandwiches, because I had no idea that you could get a lunch when you worked in films, and we went out […]
[…]film that was censored was destroyed, [I’m] furious because there was some great stuff. 1973-73, Till Death Do Us Part fifth series.And then I became honorary godfather to Cambridge Footlights that year, which was a pleasant jump from Alf Garnett to slightly more pleasant company, this was 1974. And[…]
[…] yes, my father's eldest brother. Yeah. He said, Well, you know,Unknown Speaker  1:13  why doesn't he come in with me? Now, I can't quite remember now where his workshop was.Unknown Speaker  1:21  I can't, I can't place myself before the war,Unknown Speaker  1:26  if yo[…]
[…] 1934 I got a job where I was paid. It was 10 years a week, that's 50 pence today. That's so much, but it was quite a lot in those days. You got to remember, you could buy a lot of things very cheaply. In those days, you could buy, you know, I think a bottle of whiskey was about three and six pence.[…]
[…]was the piggy in the middle, I was the only person that knew where everything was, I had to list all the shots, you know, and people would say, you remember a shot with the bus upside down? And I said, Yes, that's in Britain level, it was like that, you know. And it was it. We work continuously for […]
[…]nd, um, was generally hawked around the Newsreel business as second man.Alan Lawson: Who was, if you like, your first mentor as a cameraman? Do you remember?David Prosser: Not offhand, because I went out with the whole lot, and I've got the list here of the crews. Normally I went out with what was t[…]
[…] Harold sports Sports Club, that Barnes be a little trio. There all people from the grammar school. No, no, no. I don't know how on earth i i can't remember the pianist name, but how much he got hold of me, I just don't know. But I remember going to the school on a Saturday and getting the drum kit,[…]
[…]h was in Reigate. And then when we moved we had a very good day girls’ school, well it actually had boarders, children from abroad, as far as I can remember, called High Trees, and I went there till I was thirteen.
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And that was daily, bicycling, and that sort of thing. And then of course[…]
[…]e too mean to give it to you. But there we are. He was a Fellow of the British Film Institute; he was a Fellow of the Royal College of Art; he was an Honorary D Lit Sussex University and he was chairman of the various companies later in life that we'll come to. But let us go back to the beginning. H[…]
[…]nd I joined the ACT! [Laughing]Charles Drazin: And so what did you do for the ACT, as a cameraman? Did you actually...Manny Yospa: Well I joined as a member.Charles Drazin: Oh I see, you became a member, right.Manny Yospa: So that must be fifty years - sixty - oh all those years ago - something like[…]
