[…] there for some time. Then my father came back to London to work and I had a couple of years […]
[…]bsp;We'll get on to that in the near future. Okay, tell me when and where were you born?Speaker 1 1:21 I was born. In fact, I was born in London in 1957 at Hyde Park corner. There used to be a hospital there, which is now a poshMike Dick 1:33 hotel. Could you give me just for[…]
[…]p;married again around about 1946 and we went to live in Stockwell in southwest London and I went to Henry Thornton grammar school. In Clapham Common between 1947&nb[…]
[…] a Cameraman in the British Kinematograph Society’s course at the London Polytechnic, Regent Street, and then began at the Gaumont […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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 […]
[…] those days, because the money was flowing you see, with five films going and er, I don't know where the finance came from because that was all up in London. But um...I was just trying to think now...Margaret Thomson: Do you remember at all the amount of money that a feature film or a first-feature […]
[…] in the cast.Robert Beatty: A very small part whatever it was, because I might have joined the BBC at that time, I was working at night and living in London, eventually I got moved out to Evesham after the BBC got bombed, but that was towards the end of 1940, we got moved out somewhere round October[…]
[…]rhaps ask you more about that and your involvement there. When did you start with them and how did you come to join them? A Well, the, the, er - in - London Transport had been talking about developing a film unit and I discussed with er - with er - a chap called Hutchinson there, who was their publi[…]
[…] 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 […]