[…]nt of Youth Moira’? And I said ‘Well, funny you should ask me that’, I said ‘because I have’. And I read it when I was at school, it was in the class library and I remembered it very clearly because I was very interested in the First World War and I had read, there was a book at home called Her Priv[…]
[…]‘I’m never going to escape from here’ because I’m still having these headaches. But anyway, I managed to get a lot of books about film from the local library, then I read all (Pydothrain – indistinct) and Eisenstein and all these people. And er…so I went erm…then, no, I then, saw a small note from t[…]
[…] When you say selling space, what it for lantern slides? Or filmlets?It was mainly for filmlets, or what we call slide on film - we had this very old library of 15-second filmlets. What happened was we sold on the basis of this probably 11 or 12 seconds of action which became terribly dated - like a[…]
[…]ave to get made up 45 minutes before the show started. And I didn't have to worry if the laughs didn't come on my funny line. And I love going to the library reading kids books, the unit the junior library, or I was reading was either the front page of the newspaper and, and the back page where the […]
BECTU History Project Interview with ROY FOWLER – producer, director, writerInterview Date(s):13 June 2000Interview number:479Interviewers: Rodney Giesler Side 1Rodney Giesler:This is an interview with Roy Fowler recorded by Rodney Giesler on the 13 June 2000 for the BECTU oral history arc[…]
[…]lp me very much. And Paul Rotha, he, believe it or not, told me to go and learn how to pack films. So I said "Pack films?" So he said "yes, go into a library, or into a laboratory and learn how to handle film. And then you can think about going, becoming a film technician" which is the most ridiculo[…]