[…]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:[…]
[…]man, so all he knew about was wine and food.Unknown Speaker 6:09 So he became a waiter, and he was a founder member of the Socialist International, a matter of which I'm very proud. In fact, yes, because he had most unpromising start, as far as I can see, to be a socialist.Unknown Speake[…]
[…]way, it all went well for just six months, because I joined in August of '35 and B&D was largely destroyed and quite a large part of British International Pictures next door, by the fire, the Ostrer[?] fire of February I think it was... '36. So that everything came to a rapid halt. I went home o[…]
[…]arnel one of the directors on those Formby pictures or not?WR: [exclaims] No, oh I’ve missed out Joe Rock. I went to Joe Rock’s after, I mean British National. 3.26LH: At Elstree.WR: Noel Silvano ? was there. Not a lot to talk about: Charlie Reynolds was there who had quite a lot to do with the ACT,[…]
[…]r carriages and, and cars in the 1920s and 1930s. So, no. So that's that. So that that was chartered, then when I left school, there are some days of national service. Unfortunately, my parents weren't, weren't well off enough to pay for university fees. And in those days, Somerset was an Agricultur[…]
[…]ecause I came back five years later to work from you. But I think this was from this Dimas a film called The People's land, which is a film about the National Trust, which Ron Williams also wrote to me before. And I can remember, although I may be misplacing this, but I think I remember so misplacin[…]
[…]stminster Abbey. They did a lot of research and started making fun of Westminster Abbey. And then that didn't ever happen. And then the next then the National Gallery concerts, were making news, you know? And somebody said, Well, why doesn't the unit make a film about a National Gallery in Kansas? S[…]
[…]t came later in my teens when I went into, I went on stage to start with and then I did odd things in films for Warner Brothers and BIP [British International Pictures] and I worked a lot with Lupino Lane.RF: Just to wrap up on school did you have any encouragement on writing there. VG: Not spe[…]
[…]o an art school in Fleet Street called Broad Court which was next to Doctor Johnson’s house. And I think I was very good there. I won the National Award for Illustration at one point so I had a natural kind of bent towards cartooning really and that’s really where it developed.DARROL BLA[…]
[…]it still looked kind of garish and colourful. And this was photographed like old masters because Ducky Slocombe used to go and study paintings at the National Gallery before he'd start to shoot things and get ideas about lighting and so forth. Anyway that that all went very successfully and then I g[…]
