[…]well I always wanted to get into the film business and just before I was due to leave school the British Kinemograph Society arranged a course at the London Polytechnic, Regent Street, you know, for kinematography. A two-year course it was, every day. Well I knew no-one in the film business and I'd […]
[…]s founded to.e school dramatic society and I wrote a one act play for them toperform. But what I studied was economics and I got a scholarship to the London School of Economics where I was for three years.AL: Did you take your finals?SC: I took my finals in B.Sc Economics.AL: What made you decide to[…]
[…]rsity here at Cambridge. And so he was asked whether he'd like to go and help set up a shipping company, Scindia Steamship Company, a branch of it in London RG: Was that the Indian colonial government, I mean they were anxious presumably to get rid of him weren't they at that time? Well, no, it was […]
[…] to see him came in. They were the sweepings of London! I thought, "I can't possibly..." I'm not a snob, […]
[…]ver anyway." [laughs] So I sat in the foyer and about ten minutes later an awful crowd of boys who got to see him came in. They were the sweepings of London! I thought, "I can't possibly..." I'm not a snob, but I mean, if you work people like this, it's hopeless! Anyway, the thing I noticed about th[…]
[…] for me and all sorts of things like that. Jolly good thing she did because, we went away for a honeymoon, paid for by an Italian restaurant owner in London. Leoni’s. I was his third customer when he started. I started putting up these pictures and I started this thing called the "Glub" Group, put p[…]
[…] Luckett, “Travel and Mobility: Femininity and National Identity in Swinging London Films”, in British Cinema, Past and Present, ed. Justine Ashby […]
[…] then the other thing was you also hard out occasionally, so sent off to Denham, which was quite quite a thing. In those days, I had to live in South London and I had to be at Denham and Harper state. Wartime was not that easy. So I was hired out to work on part again of the Canterbury Tales, which […]
[…]t about provenance as well and calculating-AF: Yes, absolutely, and regional knowledge, regional knowledge. Yes.MW: It's not necessarily connected to London.AF: It’s not. Not at all. 18.35MW: Which is also a healthy thing. So your job was evolving in the Imperial War Museum.AF: Yeah.MW: At some poin[…]
