[…]ir. That was mainly apprentices to where I was sent was the biggest don't we had about 4000 trainees. At that time, this is in the 19, early 1950s. Remember, when the Cold War was at its height, so everyone was on military awareness. And I haven't done my basic training there. I was asked to join th[…]
[…]where there was popular cinema. Before that I had done some journalistic training on a financial paper. God knows what I did there, because I can’t remember! I did yields and things like that, but I don’t even know what that means anymore, but I learned to sub-edit there, that was very good training[…]
[…]you got into the industry.Norman Spencer 0:42 Well, I was born in 1914. And I was born in Stockwell, which is near Brixton, but I don't remember any of it because I think when I was about six months, my parents I was the first child, my parents moved to a place called gooseberry green, w[…]
[…]you got into the industry.Norman Spencer 0:42 Well, I was born in 1914. And I was born in Stockwell, which is near Brixton, but I don't remember any of it because I think when I was about six months, my parents I was the first child, my parents moved to a place called gooseberry green, w[…]
[…]isappear.Gerry Anstiss 21:42 He did.The last time I saw Stephen, he just come back from Africa on the years, years and years ago. But I remember we used to I used to have to get all those light strips, located for technicolour l synex and put them in a book with the same number, the type[…]
[…] gentleman is working on British Government business.” So as soon as we walked into Immigration at Jan Smuts they all knew about it. Willie became an honorary white. We got into town early afternoon, and I said we must get a bus out to the big revolving television tower where you get a marvellous vi[…]
[…]'s job where you had to have a think about exactly how you were going to cable things or where that mic clipped on. It was doing things as the junior member of a team that the other members of the team then relied on you to do, mostly so they could go to the pub and come in five minutes before on ai[…]
[…] now in detail, bit by bit?Vernon Sewell: What's that?Roy Fowler: Well, first of all Nettlefold's, when you worked there in 1929. Can you remember - it's a lost studio - I wonder if you could remember about the studio itself?Vernon Sewell: Oh, it was one of the first in England, I thi[…]
[…]in photography, and in films, not a film buff, but I just and living Gerrards cross, I suppose denim studios was built, Pinewood was opening. And I remember very well, seeing the, the British LAN van going up the Oxford road every day from bekins field studios, which is owned by British land in thos[…]
[…]n those sorts of things gave it to me only last week as a matter of fact. A fellow who I know, he belongs to the Hammer Film Society of which I am an honorary member, having worked for so long with Hammer films, and he lives at Stanmore. And I went up to see him, he came and collected me. Do you kno[…]
