[…]; But one could see, even though there were two newsreels a week, and on occasions they did a special newsreel, I mean, on an occasion like the Grand National, the Cup Final and things, longer than the days before television, they did special editions, rushed the prints into the cinemas, and you wor[…]
[…]ago, one couldn’t tell from this bill. So Danny Angel had a letter written to every single studio all over the world. Because being so many different nationalities, Mischa could have been anywhere in the world if he was still alive. And we eventually got a letter back saying he would love to come an[…]
[…], putting the microphones away in the sound department and the then chief, Red Turtle and I was there until September 1949 when I had to go and do my National Service which I did in the RAF. I went in for 18 months but then I was home on a 72 hour pass and I had been to see a Chelsea Arsenal e[…]
[…]one year. I've got in those books with all the pictures, I could show you his, his set. And Ridley Scott today is one of, you know, the, the top international film directors. It's surprising, you know, like so many people in Current Affairs and Monitor who, the, the young directors who did[…]
[…]fluential. We had a cultural invasion of world theatre in the 50’s. Many of which were on television. In 1955 Sunday night at 10 o’clock did Yugoslav National Ballet Company, Antonio and his ballet Espangnol, the Bulgarian state Song and Dance company at the Winter T Garden and the Chinese Theatre c[…]
[…]t this. I think I was always born to be with pavements. RL: 12:15 I always assume that you, sort of, you'd got, become, involved with National Hunt racing when you lived in Ireland. GM:  12:23 I did, yeah, because my dad used to have a bet. He used to go to the r[…]
[…]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,[…]
[…]s of the studio, you see?  ROY FOWLER: It was one large stage?HARRY MILLER: Yes, well they had two very large. This was British International Pictures, Elstree, and you’d have three units, a Hitchcock and, I can’t remember at the moment, Monty Banks, Wilcox, all the old names that y[…]
[…]was nothing you just had it or you didn't have it. She persuaded me in the end to go into the airforce instead of chasing after this rainbow was that national service.SPEAKER: M7No you volunteered. No I volunteered in 19 1956 I volunteered.SPEAKER: M3To go into the airforce for a career because my m[…]
[…]he circumstances were so incredibly different in those years, and everything that we have got used to in the last 40 years didn’t exist, there was no National Film School and there was no National Film Theatre, not much writing on films. Certainly the whole business of film criticism which now exist[…]
