[…]School.RF: Did you enjoy school.VG: Not a lot.RF: Did you have any special subjects you were good at or loathed.VG: Not particularly, but what I do remember doing at school, I used to sneak down very early in the morning, to the masters’ common room where there was an old typewriter and I slowly wit[…]
[…]to get them there in time to get the train out. So I had very little education really. I went to one or two what in those days, and you'll probably remember, what were called elementary schools, which was the lowest common denominator.And when I was about 13, maybe, I passed a school scholarship whi[…]
[…] as manager in the studio and took it up again I went back into production with some decent girl and finally dropped around the show. So I've been an honorary lodge card ex member. Since. So not honoring as an honorable honorable it said that I can't say I've had a great deal of AC to the extent as […]
[…]maid, took me away. So it varied. Anyway, where am I?This is just coming up to the war years now.Oh yes. Well, you see when the war started you may remember that there was a terrific boost to the animation industry because animation was needed for films for the forces explaining things. And Diagram […]
[…]ion came out of shell as a fully fledged Assistant Director of seven pounds 15 a week.Sarah Erulkar  7:49  If I can just interrupt, I can remember stating I've been coming for the interview, because we had a sort of open room there. Charles Sylvester was by the window. And I was sitting at[…]
[…] used to get people round, the workers in the studio round there for their meals, like the 'chippies', the electricians and people like that. And I remember once going into this place, and I suppose I'd have been about ten or eleven years old, to take some tea round to some of the electricians, so I[…]
[…]ic beam has been across the room and we'd be watching Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton. Or a very nice little French film called the red balloon or remember, which was a favourite. And so I got you know, that was the magic of cinema to me from an earlier age. And also, I was involved with film in fr[…]
[…]ow, she was a friend of the family and she said...well I think the studio there was run by Sam Smith in those days, who was Herbert Smith's. Do you remember a character called Herbert Smith? Anyhow there was I think Edgar Wallace had put a large slice of dough into that because they did make a lot o[…]
[…]somebody else from the Labs, I can't remember who it was now, but...Sidney Cole: At least you must have done that. That's why you should have been an honorary executive, because...Kay Mander: [over] I broke the...JS: You broke the mould!Kay Mander: [laughing] I stopped saying it! I didn't say it! No[…]
