[…]raphy and during the last year or two years at the Polytechnic we had to write a thesis on any subject you wanted to. So I said I'd write a thesis on films. So I used to go to the school library and get out all the information I could on films, quite useless information but information. And during t[…]
[…]my bar mitzvah I received two box cameras, two cameras, and started with photography and set up a dark room and started doing printing and developing films and so forth. And I think I bought my first movie camera when I was about seventeen or eighteen, which was a Pathe 9.5mm, and started shooting f[…]
[…] we were contemporaries, who also did film work. I went on from Gresham's to Cambridge and at that point which was mid 30s I decided I Wanted to make films, while I was still at school, I had written to Grierson who said come and see me during the holidays, this was wonderful really, at school I'd s[…]
[…]ut of them. In other words, the way they normally spoke, they were submitted to elocution lessons, so everybody – if you go and see any early English films - bus drivers [puts on “posh” voice] “tork laik that. There’s no more room upstairs” We used to have policeman who say “Hello, hello, what’s goi[…]
[…]nt down the road and we came out after the fall of Mandalay, came back to England. The next thing I did as far as I can remember, I went out with the liberation troops for Norway and that was quite an experience. We left Great Dunmo one night, VE Day had happened but no British troops had arrived in[…]
[…] far as I can remember, I went out with the liberation troops for Norway and that was quite an experience. […]
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[…]orest of Dean, in Gloucestershire. And my father was a mining engineer [pause] and 1:01 there was a colliery nearby my mother had been in early films. In fact, she played parts in early films and her name was Magarey Lorring, for those films.Norman Swallow: Is that Loring?Julia Cave: Lor[…]
[…]grom. I mean the British have been nothing if not anti Semitic I think tradtionally. And I remember the sort of interest in German expressionist films at that time, so almost my first memories of cinema apart from my grandmother's birthday which wa[…]
[…] and a half years and produced a son and the Liberation Films really. SF: Was Tony Australian originally? Tony was an […]
