Cyril Pennington-Richards

[…]ow, produced it anyway. And he pleaded with me to do this film and I said, "Well I don't know, I've got things to think about." He'd been told by the National Film Finance Corporation that if he didn't get me he wouldn't get the money, and he didn't get the money. I mean that's stupid isn't it? But […]

Margaret Thomson

[…]which was called the New Zealand Public Relations Council. It was, it was a public relations job, sponsored by the New Zealand Wool Marketing... International Wool Secretariat, by the New Zealand Meat Board, New Zealand Fruit Board and the New Zealand Dairy Board. The head of it was a Labour MP call[…]

Daphne Ancell

[…] the ledgers on an accounting machine.[OI] So you learnt, you had learnt to type had you or did they...?Mm, no. They had a school. It was run, mm, by National Accounting Machines.[OI] Ah, ha.And they, they sort of had a training school in the bank.[OI] Yes.And we learnt, we were all trained there, y[…]

Bill Mason

[…] £3 a week on the Monday for Shell.AL: Where were you based.BM: Shellmex House -AL : St Tand .BM: The She 11 Film Unit was really part of She 11 International and should have been with Shel 1 in the City but they couldn't have a cinema there or cutting rooms with nitrate rooms. So they had a little […]

Madeline Smith

[…]Smith  6:11  Not at all, not a soul. So my father was, as I say, a draughtsman mum was a translator, very good. Used to go to the national coal board to work, quite a responsible job doing translations. I could remember the name of some of her bosses. She particularly liked a lov[…]

Tom Peacock

[…] called?Tom Peacock: My one?Sidney Cole: Hmm.Tom Peacock: The NO...er...I've seen it forty years and I cant' even think of the name! The NACK...NOAP, National Association...something of Plasterers. I've got the tickets upstairs. Oh no, and I think our contribution was sixpence a week when I first jo[…]
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