[…]ate, but it was I think probably about December 57 I got it now OHMS letter, which said that the Queen needed me and so I went off to do my two years national service in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Most people when they go into the service went into services. If they asked their job, they were gi[…]
[…]ree-quarters were owned by individuals.Rodney Giesler : As many as that?John Hogarth : Oh yes, amazing, people nowadays thinking of Odeon and MGM and National Amusements and so on - chains of cinemas. The independent is very much the rarity. But in those days the majority of cinemas were independent[…]
[…]; And she was very complicated and I mean Jack was, bumbled on and that and they’d both been in Canada and they’d worked in the National Film Board there. And so then I startedup my, you know, an editing company in Great Newport Street, which seemed to metamorphosise itself int[…]
[…]en a job in a large labour organisation. It had it's head offices in New York.Sidney Cole: What was it called?Charles Cooper: It was called 'The International Worker's Order' and it was an interesting development because um - an interesting organisation. I was quite fascinated by it and I was taken […]
[…]s put down for the polytechnic. And I went to the Burgh polytechnic and started a course there which, five years later, landed me with a Higher National Certificate in Electrical Engineering with Distinction in Electro-Technology. So, you know, things were shaping. And at that mome[…]
[…] Fowler : No?Ella Mallett : No - where it'll be, history - it's in the Imperial War Museum isn't it?Roy Fowler : Right, yes, well either there or the National Film Archive I would have thought. One or the other.Ella Mallett : Well it was at Pinewood wasn't it?Roy Fowler : Was it? What, the archive?E[…]
[…]actors who played William.He was offered £40 a week on the main variety circuit, it was just going so well, when his call-up papers arrived. When his national service was over he felt the [variety] theatres were closing and the night clubs were a bit unsavoury. [His national service was mainly in en[…]
