[…]rom there, where did you go? What happened? PB-C: Well, I freelanced for a time after that as a camera assistant, and I remember working for the National Coal Board, which was interesting stuff… DB: So this was via contacts or an agency? Or the union? PB-C: You mentioned the union; th[…]
[…]my old man was a crazy bugger in a lot of ways. And so my mother lost a brother and that and she died when I was twelve and then we went on the National Assistance in those days which was horrendous. And when I was fifteen - I was sitting in the cinema, the one escape we had, getting bac[…]
[…]AFNorman Swallow:Czech squadron?Karel Reisz:3.08In fact there was not a separate training squadron, I was trained in an international, we had Dutch and we had Turks. The Turks came in right at the end of the war and[…]
[…]ssistant director to man called Dallas Bower , who was a highly experimental character man who liked to play around. We made a film at the Teddington National Physical Laboratories and one of the things we did was the see the windmill on which they test out models of air aircraft and I remember bein[…]
[…]out of the Luxembourg library of The Winter’s Tale which I had never read and I went to Brussels on the stage of the (Time 20:01 ) National Theatre Brussels. I did an audition and he said “It’s quite obvious you’ve never read this play.” I said “No you can’t read Shake[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…] 11[Track 1]So, name please Diane. Diane Tammes.Diane Tammes.Date of birth?Ten four forty-two.Ten four forty-two. Place of birth?Welshpool.Welshpool. Nationality?British.Some people, you know, it’s not always the right question. One of the things we have on the database is awards and honours an[…]
[…]k?Peter – Green Park was Merton Park. Yes, it was the same as the Strand, and in fact…what had happened to Strand – it had been taken over by British National, and moved to British National a few years in Elstree, and er…so we were literally in the same cutting rooms and everything, it was…Interview[…]
[…] – what was his name?SF: Joe Erskine?Was it Joe... Anyway, whatever. So that was, I suppose, my first opening up to other cultures or other nationalities.SF: Did you experience racism? I don’t mean on you, but on them during the schoolyears? Was there much racism?I wasn’t aware of it, no. […]
