[…]y third year I applied to do an education year, not in order to become a teacher. But in order to avoid the draft, because there was still national service. And then all of us would apply for the education year. And then suddenly the government said, okay, the cutoff is at this point. Now[…]
[…] us out some time in the fifties.Jim Shields: Oh yes I remember that because he set up a company I worked for - I did a Brian Rix picture at the Gate National as they they set up. He set up a very big organisation, which was going to be a nucleus of directors or producers, the best in the country. A[…]
[…]jobs, I flew up to Inverness to play a film there, James Robertson Justice the actor, he was on the plane.SC: When did you start doing things for the National Film Theatre?EB: Well years ago, Florence was the Musical Director for some years. When poor old Arthur Duly died, he had Parkinson disease h[…]
[…]ixteen; wanted a career as a customs officer; he became a clerical officer in the civil service at the Air Ministry, moving to London in 1951; 1952 – National Service in the RAF as a clerk; at 21 he went back to the Air Ministry for eight months before looking for a new career; as a youngster he wou[…]
[…]d without any restrictions. Thank you.Speaker 1 0:24 Okay. Can you please state your name, your date of birth and your place of birth and nationality?Speaker 2 0:34 My name is Matt. Matthew Ervin in full. I was born in July 1948. In London on my ancestry, it goes back to New […]
[…]as asked to stay in the army after the war but went back to studying architecture; JB talks about his tank regiment; JB had always been interested in films so approached a costume designer his uncle knew, who then introduced him to designer John Brown; JB was then sent to Edward Carrick, supervising[…]
[…]ter]30Was Fasnak [ph 465] our Managing Director? Now wait a minute who was the Managing Director?No. He was the, he was the American, he was the International Vice-President.What was the name of the Managing Director before we had all those second rate lot come along?[End of Side A][OI] Okay, this i[…]
