[…]School as I started to become more involved in the local school Film Society becoming its Treasurer and then playing a major part in creating a new concept in “school film society” by initiating the Edinburgh Schools Film Society. The idea was a simple one born out of the frustration of workin[…]
[…]a was running Napoleon with a 60 piece orchestra at in the one of the great big establishments in in Hollywood, a little art house theatre called the new art was running a reconstituted copy of loud room. And I'd never seen it. And so I went down to the new art theater as an elderly gentleman now, b[…]
[…]school I came in contact with a man called Frank basil. Now that was the Frank Brown, the Frank bevel on the lawn remember, I think of ICT he was the newsreel cameraman, and this was his son. And at Frank Basil's PLOS, we had old padley wooden pathi cameras, and a mass of memorabilia from the war. A[…]
[…]centrated on his career. Because I was working fairly solidly as an editor, and so, he, he, a lot of the time he didn’t take jobs because he was, he knew where he was heading, which, he wanted to be a director. And so, he didn’t take jobs... And he was able not to because I was working, so that he c[…]
[…]he was sitting in front of me in the cinema watching one of my films, so, it just goes to show.I: Was that an ambition?CB: Oh, right from a child, I knew thatI: You knew what you wanted to do?CB: Yes because in the First World War mother used to take my brother and myself to the cinema every Saturda[…]
[…]st: No, no.Roy Fowler: No, I see, right. And what did the programme comprise, what did you get for your money?Eddie Dryhurst: Well we usually got the newsreel, which by then was a couple of issues old. The newsreel, a travel short, a two-reel comedy, the feature of course and maybe a second feature […]
[…]me in our life, we loved it. We didn’t sort of get into theatre, but it was, well, all the music hall stuff and we became terribly blasé, knew all the jokes. And either would say, oh isn’t he terrible, or isn’t that terrible, what a dreadful singer. I mean at the age of nothing. But […]
[…]. And I couldn't sync it, I didn't know how to sync it. I had to wire the actual motor speaker for the disk you know, but it was television, it was a new and exciting thing. It really got to me. A little while later, I was about thirteen I suppose then, a little while later my parents took me to the[…]
[…]portunity for working people: only 5 out of 100 children at state schools in Staffordshire went on to secondary education in 1910. But in that year a new Director of Education was appointed in Staffordshire, who was a Scotsman and he very quickly latched the County onto the opportunities offered by […]
[…], was it towards dramatic writing, did you plan to be a novelist perhaps.VG: No, in the early days, in my very early teens I drifted into writing for newspapers and I was in Fleet St where I used to do the film page for the Sphere and the London Illustrated News, and all the fan magazines of those d[…]
