[…]n that city on many occasions before, in my senior secondary school years, starting to contemplate actually working in the industry. In fact the excellent book on Edinburgh Cinemas and a later DVD on the same subject brought back wonderful memories and remembrances of films viewed in all of the venu[…]
[…]e was I think Edgar Wallace had put a large slice of dough into that because they did make a lot of his pictures there. You know 'The Whip' and The Calendar and all those things, you know.Roy Fowler: They were quota pictures weren't they?E.M. Smedley-Aston: Well I think some of them were s[…]
[…]ing?Yes, Victoria College.In Belfast?In Belfast.Ah, ha.Which is noted for one thing only, that in my mind which is that a marvellous scholar called Helen Waddell went to Victoria College and she’s known popularly as, as the author of Peter Abelade but she was an amazing Latin scholar and s[…]
[…]t and a coracle and a runabout that my brother and I used, and he had an aeroplane at Croydon, he had his own aeroplane at Croydon. And he still had plenty of money in the bank. Now you see that's a very, very simple way of living. He went out and he earned an amount of money, he paid 6d in the poun[…]
[…] or any such ...? Adam Dawson 1:30 No, not at all. My father was a chartered accountant. My mother was a very talented woman. She used to like most people she used to sing and entertain. And I had two older sisters, and a younger brother. S[…]
[…]hen,Unknown Speaker 2:38 and I stopped for the electrolyte company. That was what that was, a local authority company London and home challenges when it was London, home challenges, which they bought from the turkey maintaining electrolyte company, yes, when they made it, sort of South o[…]
[…] is the answer, but very stormy, the comfortable is the bit the very stormy English middle class, yes. Volatile, volatile father, yes, really? Oh, violent fellow, yes. Very energetic, butRoy Fowler 3:42 well, you mean physically violent. Well,Keith Ewart 3:46 he didn't believ[…]
The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Alf Cooper, lab technician, interviewed by Len Runkels on October the twenty-third 1988. Side one.How old were, how old are you Alfred?I’ll be, I was seventy-six in September this year. I was born in twelve.1912?September Twelve.[…]
[…] and work his camera, [Laughter] change, well they didn’t change lens of course. No, no. But I mean he couldn’t, […]
[…] to send down someone to do handwork for the inserts. And they would get someone who was very old and very doddery. And you know, you've got the pack lens on camera, and these fingers would come into frame and they'd be shaking in and out of shot in the novice so you sit down and have a cup of tea a[…]
