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[…]st astonishing film of an MP, in 1917, called Noel Pemberton Billing. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of him. Well he was a quite a – he was like a Johnsonian [Boris Johnson] figure of his day, but extremely right-wing, he was quite posh, he designed motor cars, fast motor cars, he designed aeropl[…]

[…] we all went off to the different places, so - all the - Universal and that. And ABC Cinemas at the time were just beginning, a fellow by the name of John Maxwell, I think you may have heard of him, from Scotland. He'd got The Regal, Marble Arch, and he was just beginning to build stuff up in the so[…]

[…]she said “Are you standing up?” “Yes” “Well”, she said “listen, they’re going to pay you ten pounds a day. It’s only five days and it’s called Salute John Citizen. I think it was Edward Rigby and that’s Marcel Varnel I’m sure.McG: No, that’s Maurice Elvey.HF: That was Maurice Elvey, yeah. There were[…]

[…]nbsp;1:39  And before before we start talking about, you know, the the evacuation things have, have you gotten the early memories of your father john, before you went, went?Charlotte Jennings  1:53  Yes. I'm afraid not happy ones. We, we moved about quite a lot. The reason the reason […]

[…]uld be dreary beyond belief. But I got hooked. And then I had a series of other jobs, designing and silk screen printing, and this and that. But when John advertised for an animator, I thought, "Ah, this is your lucky day." And I didn't mean just for me, I meant for John, because I knew there were o[…]

[…]y interesting, because we met all sorts of people, apart from the people that I've pinpointed. I attacked all the people from England, which included John Myers, who was Korda's publicity manager, and Imperiali[?] Katie Boyle's father, Nigel Tangye, who was aviation advisor on the film that Korda wa[…]

[…],Roy Fowler  14:55  and those, is there a first fool that you remember seeing, Oh,Unknown Speaker  14:59  singing fool. Huh, yes, Johnson,Unknown Speaker  15:08  no gel on that one. Okay,Roy Fowler  15:13  right? Well, then school, third, no matric, but then w[…]

[…]ing, but with great simplicity and actually work faster. You haven't got a total answer lunch, see, and for instance, you said the Chief electrician, John Cameron. I want to get on this wall. Long shadows out further back cover the whole wall. Then flag off there. That's it. Now, Chief electrician w[…]

[…]ox productions, because Herbert virtually ran the studios then. And there I was until we were doing a film which Freddie Young was photographing with Johnny Wilcox and Ivan Foxwell his crew. And I went home one Friday night and discovered on Monday morning that the bloody studio had burnt down. So e[…]