[…]t didn't really know what it was. One's life really revolved around nanny, the garden, ones toys and of course the occasions when we were taken up to London to a pantomime.  Because in addition, this was the other extraordinary thing, in addition to Henden Manor and subsequently Upper Parrick, […]
[…]t in cinema when you're at Cambridge, you kind of wish. You hadn't thought of it as a career. It was more of anMichael Clarke  30:56  Intel London thing of a career now, when the wall was clearly gradually being won or coming to them. The dreadful thought having to have a career. I had bee[…]
[…]t started way back in 19, I suppose 1908. And my father was at a very, very young age at the age of about 23. He was already a very known, well known London photographer. Ronald Neame  1:02  He had studios in Bonn Street. And in South Kensington, he had quite a good commerci[…]
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[…]ilm industry?" And I said, "None." He said, "Well go away, dear, and when you've got some experience come back and see me." So then I went to see the London Films people down at Isleworth - Worton Hall Studios. And they said, "Oh, no, no, nothing at the moment." So we all went off on holiday down to[…]
[…]Yes, right.  Gloria Sachs  28:10  What a fantastic experience. Margaret Thomson  28:13  So then I got to, I got back to London and then had to look for work again. And I got another job with Strand Film Unit, again in the cutting rooms. By this time they were at Merton […]
[…]ligatory in those days for children with the middle class. I went well, I went to first the first school I went to Valley Nafisa de se francais in in London. And that was the very school first school I went to get my first musical performance. See my book saw that our gap so moving on, I burst into […]
[…]cameras, John Luton. The interview number is eight to nine. The date is the 24th of April 2023. And we're filming at the cinema Museum in Kensington, London, which houses the most remarkable collection of cinema memorabilia collected over the last 70 years by the man sitting opposite me to do. We st[…]
[…]Marriage in Dover court which is a mile away from Harwich. We were in many ways in the firing line from the German bombers. They were on their way to London and came over us and we were very much in the firing line. In fact on two occasions I was nearly my family were nearly wiped out. While I was w[…]
[…]p;film. Where we were born into your parents. Yes quite well I was born in London of a Swiss father and a Scottish mother. I was educated at Highgate and&n[…]
