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[…]I did. My father my stepfather so my stepfather was an electrician I was a member of the team you in fact I think Frank Chapel was a charge and it&nbs[…]
[…] film star. Her films included Shooting Stars (1927), The Return of Carole Deane (1938) and Dead Lucky (1960). I: 29 […]
[…]in Brownlow (1938-) is an English filmmaker and film historian whose work focuses on the preservation of films from the silent era. He won an Academy Honorary Award in 2010.
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[…] 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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] didn't take any notice of that but I wasn't a member and none of the people I worked with were […]
[…]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[…]
[…]her married again, his second wife was again seriously ill and so I came back to Welwyn for another bit. I did my three Rs there with the school. I remember coming back one day and saying, "I can read, I can read!" Just like that, suddenly, isn't it funny? I don't know why it happened like that, I r[…]
[…]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, […]
