[…], 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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] "There's a man here called John Grierson, who's got the National Film Board of Canada, and come on up, at […]
[…] it. I found recently with Minder! it became such a national name that location managers only had to knock on […]
[…]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[…]
[…]u know, and I was next to him as this gentle Oliver, next door in my velvet suit and this close up picture was was printed the following morning in a national paper. We were doing some Dickens' birthday celebrations in a galleried inn we used to do it every year, I think it's still there in the boro[…]
[…]. 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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] all the jobs in theatre. Then I had to do National Service, sq uare bashing, being messed about. I couldn’t […]
