[…]ERVIEWER: Oh, sorry to hear that. Yes, and then what happened next? CHARLES SMITH: I shot my first film as a cameraman in 1951. That was for the National Coal Board, and it was a film on fires underground and how to fight them. This was made in the wake of a serious disaster which killed a cons[…]
[…] record back was co directing with Anthony Bushnell and that took place at metal photo studios and I had to leave before the film was finished. Do my national service. And I spent two, two years out of the business completely in the RAF. In fact, I, after three weeks in the RAF, the Korean War start[…]
[…] Allen: I see.Mickey Hickey: ...with John Aldred and I took John Aldred's place. And the other member of the sound crew was - oh he ended up with the National Film Board in Ottawa - George Crowle[?]. And he went out there and he contacted me when I was at MGM, said, "We've got a job for you out here[…]
[…]back. And then we went back on to a lucid pimpinella shooting a few extra things and that we oh yes, we we reshot or shot the extra scenes at British national. What else droveAlan Lawson  39:14  Yes, yes.Noreen Ackland  39:15  I did quarter. Take that over for a time. Time. IAlan[…]
[…]stminster Abbey. They did a lot of research and started making fun of Westminster Abbey. And then that didn't ever happen. And then the next then the National Gallery concerts, were making news, you know? And somebody said, Well, why doesn't the unit make a film about a National Gallery in Kansas? S[…]
[…]er became a producer, and was involved in various quiz games thought up by him and Edward J. Mason, who wrote for BBC Midland Region, and they became national names on radio. Also, while I was working here, I met an actor called Antony Kiri. And at the time, I didn't think this was of any importance[…]
[…]at Lime Grove.Eventually, all this time, 1938 nobody was doing anything about up war, all of us couldsee it coming and probably foolishly Ijoined the National Fire Service, so two evenings aweek I had to become fireman, pretend to be a fireman. So as soon as war was announcedI was actually put on fu[…]
[…]they wanted to get out of hotels and Harry Danziger was married to Angela King, who was Sam King's daughter, sister of Peter King who ran Screen International or set up Screen International, and through the family interests they bought the major part of Shipman & King but your father was instrum[…]
