[…]ridge scholarship at 16 so didn’t need A levels. Worked briefly in tax office then went to univ. Arrived to find myself with 23-year olds still doing National Service – “I was a kind of pet”, couldn’t go into pubs for first 2 years (“I did, but not legally”). I struggled a bit, would probably have d[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]. JPH: Five guineas or something wasn’t it? DS: A lot of employment to Equity members.JPH: And the Equity strike in ’61, which was over the national deal for the then network as it existed, they all went on strike. We had no actors in anything at all for seven months. It was a very lo[…]
[…]ow, produced it anyway. And he pleaded with me to do this film and I said, "Well I don't know, I've got things to think about." He'd been told by the National Film Finance Corporation that if he didn't get me he wouldn't get the money, and he didn't get the money. I mean that's stupid isn't it? But […]
[…]lly that but I was told this a comparatively few years ago at the 50th anniversary. History of the Film Society an event that was set of about at the National Film theatre and Ipswich itself. But I got the local principal singer? put a slide on the screen, appealing for people to support the formati[…]
[…] got things to think about." He'd been told by the National Film Finance Corporation that if he didn't get me […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]ed in heritage the following year, but it became extremely controversial, and there are lots of newspaper reports about the pros and cons. It went on national television, and the people who had been had taken up the cause of saving this building were detailed as the lunatic fringe. So this was an ab[…]
[…]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[…]
