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[…] a copy-writer to across the road which was then in New Bridge Street with Mather and Crowther but people were […]
[…]just as the general office dogsbody, office boy really. But the idea was that I would move over as a copy-writer to across the road which was then in New Bridge Street with Mather and Crowther but people were being fired left, right every week because of the General Depression. So I really I wasn't […]
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[…] disk you know, but it was television, it was a new and exciting thing. It really got to me. A […]
[…]. 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[…]
[…]tchcock's blackmail.SPEAKER: M15He gave me that side the silent version obviously which I would whine through over and over again.SPEAKER: M10Well I knew every frame of Hitchcock's blackmail.SPEAKER: M2In addition of course he gave me many other things but that was the most important for the formati[…]
[…] M3 When were you born where I was born on November the. 2nd 1915 at a little place called Ruislip in Middlesex My mother and father had a lttle newsagents and tobacconists shop which is still there to this day. And. Ruislip then is a little village I mean there are a few shops by the station. […]
[…]ects and music particularly added a great deal. That's why King Kong impressed me it wasn't just the film the animated dinosaurs and the gorilla you knew it wasn't real. I didn't know how it was done. And there were a lot of misleading articles in the magazines various magazines saying King Kong was[…]
[…]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 […]
