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[…]es dragging this motorbike round and then next morning after breakfast, he said you will Didn't I suggest those were just follow me and he went off a national storm had stood up to I probably it was somewhere like leopards Hill and effing forest and I followed him and of course i got i overall I fol[…]

[…]rom there, where did you go? What happened? PB-C: Well, I freelanced for a time after that as a camera assistant, and I remember working for the National Coal Board, which was interesting stuff… DB: So this was via contacts or an agency? Or the union? PB-C: You mentioned the union; th[…]

[…] had left there, you know. So I would have like to have seen him, it would have been a matter of interest. And they all - a lot of them were in their national costume, you know, Dutchmen in the clogs and the big old peak cap and all that sort of thing. See, what happened apparently, and I heard abou[…]

[…]. How did that come about? Sarah Erulkar  42:58Peter, Peter did, his his sister and his brother were in this huge house, which is, I think, National Trust, Barwythe, near Whipsnade, and they bought it all together. They each had a small flat, Peter just had a stable room, but the families […]

[…]ife. And her life included, prevail, which was the constituency of her husband, Michael foot, also the constituency of an Aryan Bevan, founder of the National Health Service. She said, Why don't you make your first film in Abba Vale? And I listened to what she said and I thought, well, maybe, maybe […]

[…] Command the trumpeters come onto the stage apron to - on top of the closing captions - and the stage apron comes up with the organ, and it plays the national anthem. Well first of all there's the heralds, and then the national anthem. And the arrangement was you closed the screen tabs and then foll[…]

[…]rand climax was the Great Game, the Highlands against theLowlands which took place on Cobbinshaw Loch and then if you got through that we had theInternational. That only happened once in my lifetime, the frost lasted as long as that. It was the1959 frost but it was tremendously exciting.Taylor/Peet:[…]

[…]ERVIEWER: Oh, sorry to hear that. Yes, and then what happened next? CHARLES SMITH: I shot my first film as a cameraman in 1951. That was for the National Coal Board, and it was a film on fires underground and how to fight them. This was made in the wake of a serious disaster which killed a cons[…]

[…]ded and boring?Alan Lawson: No, no, no, that's fine.David Prosser: He was able to, legally, to stay there, I think, for forty eight hours, under International Law, while he conducted repairs, and after that, he had to put to sea again - otherwise he was breaking International Law. So we had a break […]