[…]s I have heard of it. John Halas: then doing a little experimental film, a lady from Switzerland came along to see it and proposed to send it to London. This was 1936 already, and in London that group of people liked it. It was called The Music Man based on Franz Liszt's music of Hungarian Rhap[…]
[…]hood. Well I was born on the 18th of August 1922. Uh the east side of London Manor Park. And. At that time. My father who had been in the Royal F[…]
[…]sp;Organisation and I worked for Independent Producers and we made among other films The Red Shoes, London Belongs to Me and films like that and I suppose I've been lucky because here I am 1988, 47 years later stil&[…]
[…] 6, 7. I just always drew. My dad was a commercial artist and he was freelance. I used to go on Saturday mornings... he'd take me up to his studio in London and I used to clear up, you know, help him tidy up. And the smell of, kind of, cow gum and, you know, paper and all that... ah, it was just... […]
[…]year. And my parents had a little Queen Ann house, small house in the country that they rented for £1 a week in Berkshire, and we were all moved from London to down there. And my father went into the army and we saw very little of him in those years, because he was in India for 4 years and he was in[…]
[…]hey are now. But you didn't get any training. Driving instruction. You were put in a in a truck. And you were taken straight out into the East End of London. And I thought he guards but the said anyone drive around an airfield, but not anyone can drive around the East End of London. I always remembe[…]
[…]e boxes out of the truck into where they were going to be used and back again afterwards. And this was on odds and sods of jobs that were done in the London area and then they were going, the real crew, which was a cameraman called Hal Morey plus Peter Sergeant er plus George Pearson I think, was di[…]
[…] in working with Truffaut, on Omnibus, about his life.But, to go back, we then moved to Gerards Cross from Fulmer, and I got into St Paul’s School in London, so it meant going up and down on the train. Which was quite a trek. DB: What ambitions formed in your young head at that time? PB-C:[…]
[…] us about your family life, where you were born, schooling and how you came into the film industry. AY: Well I was born in the East end of London, my father was a watch maker, watch repairer and my mother was a put upon housewife. Looking back I would say she was a slave. Ther[…]
[…]hat time?Joy Batchelor: Anything but teach. [laughs] Which is what my parents dearly wanted me to do, but I'm afraid I stuck my heels in, and went to London to look for a job, and do you know nobody wanted me. There I was, brilliant, talented, young - you know - and nobody would give me a job! [laug[…]
