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[…] British, and the other - I don't mean British by nationality but British music hall performer - and Harry Langdon […]

[…]ee years there, three are very happy, very, very happiest. And it was really kind of before its time, because it was very multicultural, all sorts of nationalities there. Pretty well, all men, I think, are the architects. Delightful people very interesting. And I know we had day trips to properties,[…]

[…] Thames as a commercial operation saw very foresightedly , with great foresight, that this was an opportunity to buy programming that would have international appeal: that would stay on the shelf. And, of course, The World at War was the absolute classic…about which recently – or a few years ago – I[…]

[…] that when I was about 12 so I was really quite impressed with that. And then I used to love the impressionists because my dad used to take me to the National Gallery. 0:03:07.1 MIKE: Where did you go to art school then? 0:03:09.1 JOY: Well yes, but this is back about 1957. There was somet[…]

[…] was fantastic to hear these two guys talking about the early days, you know? One was Australian but British, and the other - I don't mean British by nationality but British music hall performer - and Harry Langdon the old time comic.Rodney Giesler: And of course he was vaudeville, wasn't he, before[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]en shot in a house somewhere other less dramatic. Anyway that the director was Dickey Vernon, an ex script writer from the lady yield days at British National. And that didn't bring any real big bells. But it was strange the people that were in it, and where they got to because one of the lesser juv[…]