[…] a maximum of a year, and we stayed here ever since.SC : WHy was thatGC : My father was connected in business to a cousin of his who had an office in London, a rather large office representing italian manufacturers and my father was the link in Milan. And this cousin of his died of a heart attack su[…]
[…]re and when where you born?HARRY MILLER: 1904, November the 25th 1904.ALAN LAWSON: What kind of schooling did you receive?HARRY MILLER: I was born in London, by the way. My schooling was a Catholic Church school, we were Catholics our family were Catholic. In Macklin Street, I went to on[…]
[…]f production at Lime Grove or Shepherd's Bush Studios. And I managed to get from him an introduction from Chan Balcon, he agreed to see me. I went to London. I went to Lime Grove, a wonderful studio, a sort of Hollywood to me then, little page boys with page boy hats, commissionaire at the entrance,[…]
[…] coincided with mine. We were standing watching the Blitz on London and he said fantastic, this is much better than […]
[…] Chan Balcon, he agreed to see me. I went to London. I went to Lime Grove, a wonderful studio, a […]
[…]was when I left school and when I was about sixteen I got a job with an American filmmaker called Alan Forbes. Alan made documentary films. He was in London and he taught me about editing, and about camera operating, and about sound, and basically was a very committed filmmaker. And, God, I was luck[…]
[…]e, I think it was the first film here. Was probably the jazz singer, but it was, I would have thought, probably two years after it was first shown in London. Derek Threadgall 22:15 So the other jazz singer was the first sound, yeah, for most first cinemas at the time, but […]
