[…] going off. And I used to lie in fields and I would get this heady atmosphere of the air near the ground being humid and full of fall, the sort of pollen and, and noises of field mice and things like this. And I can remember looking up at the sky through these waving, sometimes, like, I'd go on the […]
[…]er was master of Dulwich college. He spoke rather well and was extremely well brought up and well dressed. But out of this it appeared that I had a talent for languages and took French and German and then lastly Spanish which has stood me in good stead because I ended up when I left school in the Eu[…]
[…] every studio and trying to sell these cameras and gainsboroughs were the first to to buy them. They, first of all, bought two that were not really silent, but they were somewhat blimp, yes.Unknown Speaker 16:19 And after running them for about a week, the gears inside completely snapped[…]
[…]o Alan.Q: (Laugh) Now, were, was there a close knit between your father and his brothers or?SAMUELSON: Not really, between my father and his sister Ralene (?), yes, his brother Julian who became the great theatrical producer at Drury Lane and was known in the late 20’s and the early 30’s as the King[…]
[…]and I wasn’t the best student, and my parents were friendly with Edgar Wallace’s Art Director, the only lady art director at the time. She was very talented, when she wasn’t working for Edgar Wallace, mainly in the theatre,LH: Edgar Wallace, apart from being a writer, was presumably a film director-[…]
[…]nnie Anscombe assistant, and I managed to stick that for two or three years. I can't think how, and managed to upgrade myself by working with Jimmy Allen and himself. Tiger Reeve, Ken Reeve, other cameraman, upgrade myself to operator and eventually to cameraman, but found that working with a small […]
[…]ust thought that would be boring, and so I was awfully lucky I got into Army Cooperation, which meant that I was on close support bombers which were Blenheims in those days and later became Bostons which was a much faster aircraft it’s rather like going from a Blenheim to a Boston was rather like go[…]
Len Lawrence Laboratories, Technician, Editor (Stoll, Humphries, Technicolor)BECTU No.81Interviewers Alf Cooper (AC) & Alan Lawson (AL)Date: 12/04/1989 Side 100:00:00 – 00:03:58 Introduction; early life; schooling; 11 plus exams; first job in a fruit shop; working in an ironmongers.00:[…]
[…] So the scene changes to Sunday where I've set up all the apparatus in a little tent and in walks my engineer in charge from Newcastle with a man resplendent in uniform, with silver scrolls everywhere, and he says Sutton, this is the Chief Constable of Cumberland. And he's very interested in BBC equ[…]
