[…]hat mainly Eastmancolor that you were working on?PS: I think that it was exclusively Eastmancolor. There was very few choices, there was Agfa, if I remember rightly, and Fuji didn’t exist and we didn’t have access to Sovcolor.  Maybe there was one other made in East Germany.  I c[…]
[…]ges, hundreds of yards long. The house must have finished like that [presumably gesturing] and it came into two, all paved – and one thing I always remember, the truck driver at Ealing had worked for Pathe, Pathe News and it had rained and you know if you go on grass after it rains a lot a nasty mud[…]
[…]her, and I became completely smitten with them, I can only say that. I just couldn't wait to get involved in them. My opportunity came when - I was a member of the boy scouts, and there was an opportunity for me to do something about that when the head of our local scouts for some reason was approac[…]
[…]a Fleet Street press agency, supplying photographs to newspapers. And then I was offered a job in documentary films.  INTERVIEWER: Do you remember what company it was? CHARLES SMITH: Yes, of course. It was with a small cooperative unit called DATA, DATA Film Unit. And I was taken on, […]
[…]r, who is living, who was an airline pilot and also flew in the War, and myself was born in India.And my parents divorced, do you know I can't even remember quite when, probably 10 or 11. I never knew my father terribly well, he served in India and most of time, I was brought up in England. I went t[…]
[…]you have a budget for them?Unknown Speaker  6:16  We had an overall budget. What do you mean a departmental function, budget. But I don't remember the individual films being broken down.Unknown Speaker  6:28  I don't rememberUnknown Speaker  6:30  it never worried me. A[…]
[…]he union they just didn't bother to pay their dues. Some honourable people still do like David Putnam does and Dickie Attenborough does; Dickie is an honorary member and consequently doesn’t need to pay dues but he still ended up about 3000 quid a year. Yeah.  I proposed him for honorary m[…]
[…]n you would take him to be a military man but if you knew him of course nothing could be further from the truth but he was so organised  I can remember this day him standing upright with his gauntlet gloves, you know, because he'd always dive in and he wouldn't have I think on that a picture th[…]
[…] library. Always preceded by a short which would be the secrets of life or the secrets of nature with a VHS limit on the narration and Merrifield I remember was involved in them I remember these names quite clearly and presumably the news as well.SPEAKER: M5No we never had the news we weren't allowe[…]
[…]ed to have to go to Hereford for my dancing lessons, although somebody came once a week to give a class somewhere in the church hall, which I can't remember too much about that. I can remember going to Hereford, and I went twice a week, and I used to have to take the bus and it left at 4.10, and to […]
