[…]y’ll call you on the set and these are the lines you’re going to say. They gave me lines daily, from the script, there was a script, it was already a screenplay as it were and George Cole – it was his second film, he’d done Cottage to Let George Cole was in it and because I’d seen Cottage to Let, I […]
[…]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[…]
[…] all that. And about this time, by the time this all came about, I'd shown the film about a good deal and I ran a double bill to invitees at the National Film Theatre which I just took in a morning to show both that and The Class as a double bill, to which I asked Jo Janni. And Jo Janni saw it […]
[…]e deck and part of it takes place below deck, and so we built that ourselves. And I always remember, because I went to see it about a year ago at The National, and it was nowhere near as effective as Peter's production in this little theatre. Because he had below, he had just a board (like that) and[…]
[…] had left there, you know. So I would have like to have seen him, it would have been a matter of interest. And they all - a lot of them were in their national costume, you know, Dutchmen in the clogs and the big old peak cap and all that sort of thing. See, what happened apparently, and I heard abou[…]
[…]n the films he was in.Well, after reverse Oh yes. at Riverside the dreaded note came back and said you've left the craft Film Unit where you're doing national service will you please report production national national service again so Icalled them up called a marshal and remember, we were sending M[…]
[…]s, you had to have a silent camera as well for the cutaway shots. On the big jobs such as the Cup Final of course every one was on that, or the Grand National, you'd have everybody out on that. The Grand National was something different because being spread out over such a large area with a lot of j[…]
[…] the ledgers on an accounting machine.[OI] So you learnt, you had learnt to type had you or did they...?Mm, no. They had a school. It was run, mm, by National Accounting Machines.[OI] Ah, ha.And they, they sort of had a training school in the bank.[OI] Yes.And we learnt, we were all trained there, y[…]
[…] through labs or through somewhere. Well, I decided not on labs, so I went and gained, well technical knowledge. I went as a senior technician to the national coward research unit under Dr Bronowski, where I then, again utilized all my cinematic skills, again as a caring man, mostly working on very […]
