[…]te when I was at Elstree, I’ve got a note here somewhere, 1927.ALAN LAWSON: Oh, yes. That’s when you started so you were still well into the ‘silent’ days?HARRY MILLER: Oh, it was silent, yes. Started in the silent days. Elstree. I can always remember that I was in the offi[…]
[…] admin — last modified Jul 27, 2008 02:16 PM BIOGRAPHY: Len Harris trained as a Cameraman in the British Kinematograph Society’s […]
[…]here - it was quite cheap, and saw all the old films. Now I must have seen - because sound had just about come in you see, they used to show mostly silent films, they could only afford that and then when eventually they got sound equipment they were only showing silent films as second features. Beca[…]
[…]find for our collection. We all had a collection under her beds of the fins of ancient century bombs or high explosives, or any bits with that had fallen off of planes or and so Nick Gilbey 6:31 so the the was there any theatre amongst Harry Coventry 6:35&n[…]
[…] the talkies, in my opinion, Germany would have been the leading country in the world. It's the language. We beat them. And therefore all the great talents like lubrigs and so on, all emigrated to Hollywood because they knew there was a greater chance to expand. But Ufa, in those days, had some enor[…]
[…]very important part of that. He had, I mean, he was nothing but a voice, but he was a reassuring voice, a comfortable voice, and he was an excellent reader, of course. He was a portrait painter, Ted, close to the Royal Family, very close to the Queen, I mean, all the jokes we made about […]
[…]0s are we.VG: I suppose we must be. But it was a great grounding of writing for all types and writing quickly, ghosting Mae West's life story, and Marlene Dietrich's life story.RF: This is for fan magazines in England.VG: Yes and for newspapers.RF: Any particular newspaper.VG: News of the World, I d[…]
[…]t I love it mostly still, in those days, we had these cameras and my wife who I knew in those days, I mean, she was a very patient model, because the lenses were I think the widest was five, six. And on the big camera it was I was sick three, I mean, it was really dead. So she had to keep still, you[…]
[…] early days we would have - there was no zoom lens. So if I said I wanted a medium close-up, […]
[…]dney Giesler: Your father was nothing to do with the theatre?Dicky Leeman: No, no. He was a businessman.Rodney Giesler: So obviously there was some talent breaking out of you.Dicky Leeman: Well, my mother's father, Edward Catto[?], was a recognised Scots poet. He used to write under the name of Will[…]
