[…]lot of the travelogue films that accompanied the early Bond films. So Harold Baim was a name I knew and respected and I met him went to his office in London. Curiously he asked if I was going to stay living where I was living. Well that was now my home and I thought that rather curious but possibly […]
[…]ering attitudes of licence managers in the different archives . In particular she ran across a real ‘stickler’ at the National Film Archives in London called Dawley Dorly Minnick……She’d been there a long time. And, I think that she was Hungarian or Austrian. I can’t remember where she wa[…]
[…] show out on tour. And when he heard me playing, practising one afternoon, in our little front parlour, where we lived in Leyton, in the East side of London, he said to my mother and father, I think we'd like to take the kid on tour. And we'll teach him to play jazz. And my father said, No, he's gon[…]
[…]art with Sarah Erulkar?Well, you realise I’m from India, and I came over here when I was about five, when let’s face it, Indians were niggers in London, so it wasn’t a sort of terribly happy childhood.But I went to St Paul’s, I gather you’ll want to know, and then to university during thewar.Di[…]
[…]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 […]
[…] Fowler: Well may I just stay with 'Caesar' because that's probably, financially, the most notorious picture in British film history, maybe that and 'London Town', but I would have thought 'Caesar' would have come out on top. Can you give us a rundown on that particular financial fiasco? Andy W[…]
[…]m, Paramount of course. So I had the two because Earl wasn't there a lot. When Lilian left, for a time I was with a department, it was to do with the London branch and it was vetting contracts for films. I was the senior of the girls and the woman who was in charge she left and I should have been in[…]
