[…]earliest film memory was going to his studio which was Worton Hall at Isleworth which subs, subsequently became the Korder Studio and then became the National Coal Board something or other. I don’t know what it is now. And I can remember as a perhaps five or six years old and being taken to the stud[…]
[…]used to dress up in Victorian gear...SF: Yes.And go round Europe in this 1928 Alvis.SF: Yes.And do things. So we’d go and open, I think we opened The National Film Archive in Brussels.SF: Ah, ha.And we went to Stockholm. And I remember going to Berlin because I’d never, youknow, I’d never been abroa[…]
[…]e other Simon Gray plays Close of Play, Quartermaine's Turns, Otherwise Engaged, all of which Harold directed then I did quite a bit at The National. Well the first one I did there, I did a lot of things because Harold introduced me actually, my first national play was because of him becau[…]
[…]idn’t he?
I thought it was later than that. I don’t remember him around until...
[inaudible] that time.
Yes, maybe.
As I say, I think the National Provincial suddenly decided enough was enough.
Yes. Yah.
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I was curious whether your uncle, what his primary motivation was[…]
[…] all that. And about this time, by the time this all came about, I'd shown the film about a good deal and I ran a double bill to invitees at the National Film Theatre which I just took in a morning to show both that and The Class as a double bill, to which I asked Jo Janni. And Jo Janni saw it […]
[…];11:10 Yeah, if I may suggest, we move on to the middle of strong Midlands connection with your father. I remember as a kid on listening to the national radio and hearing the niqab interpreter. AfterUnknown Speaker 11:25 leaving the RCMP, he graduated from the air in what you just […]
[…]way, it all went well for just six months, because I joined in August of '35 and B&D was largely destroyed and quite a large part of British International Pictures next door, by the fire, the Ostrer[?] fire of February I think it was... '36. So that everything came to a rapid halt. I went home o[…]
[…] the labor crisis was a nationwide problem, there was no national scheme to counteract the lack of skilled workers. In […]
[…]t came later in my teens when I went into, I went on stage to start with and then I did odd things in films for Warner Brothers and BIP [British International Pictures] and I worked a lot with Lupino Lane.RF: Just to wrap up on school did you have any encouragement on writing there. VG: Not spe[…]
