[…]ixteen; wanted a career as a customs officer; he became a clerical officer in the civil service at the Air Ministry, moving to London in 1951; 1952 – National Service in the RAF as a clerk; at 21 he went back to the Air Ministry for eight months before looking for a new career; as a youngster he wou[…]
[…]it still looked kind of garish and colourful. And this was photographed like old masters because Ducky Slocombe used to go and study paintings at the National Gallery before he'd start to shoot things and get ideas about lighting and so forth. Anyway that that all went very successfully and then I g[…]
[…]ree-quarters were owned by individuals.Rodney Giesler : As many as that?John Hogarth : Oh yes, amazing, people nowadays thinking of Odeon and MGM and National Amusements and so on - chains of cinemas. The independent is very much the rarity. But in those days the majority of cinemas were independent[…]
[…]t do it. But having gone all through the dramas, and in those days if they wanted some body to direct a film, they had to get the permission from the National Film Finance Corporation. - we are going to have so and so to direct it, and if they said no, you were out. They'd agreed that I could do it.[…]
[…]but she’s a nice girl she worked at BBC, got her in.Well, so, but I love to check all through those records to see.Yes. Well, they’re, they’re at The National Film Archive all the old...Are they?Yes, yes.Yes, I’d love to see them especially the Pathé ones, you know, all the newcomers andthat.Yes, ye[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]ne very nicely, we've got some super stories there and those old stills are absolutely super. As I say, I hope that you might give permission for the National Archive...Fred Tomlin: If you want to use them you can, yes.Bob Allen: ...to take copies of them they'd be most interested.Fred Tomlin: Becau[…]
