[…]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 […]
[…]e, was it like many studios at that time a converted house with stages built round it?John Aldred: At that particular moment they had just built four new stages and they were on permanent hire. One pair was on hire to John Wainwright and another pair was on hire to John Baxter. They rented the thing[…]
[…] was on at Pinewood as sound maintenance engineer at the new MGM Borehamwood studios, after about two years he moved […]
[…]c side were America and Great Britain. And even in those days, the company very much divided its research work, because there might be a project or a new film, which in fact, the work would be shared between the two groups. So there was very rarely something which just happened in the States or just[…]
[…]l of himself and to the extent that as teenagers when they were all living at home, the four children in Southport where my Grandmother, who I never knew had a little tobacconist shop, that Julian did not um lower himself to eat at the same table as the rest of the family.So er, and there was no mon[…]
[…]ere you are, who you are, where you come from, your childhood days, anything about your early life?Margaret Thomson 0:25 Yes, I come from New Zealand. My parents came from New Zealand as well. And my grandparents went out to New Zealand in the very early days of the colonisation of New Z[…]
[…] Polish Corridor because the Balcons were at the end of it! Anyway, he, the family was a middle-class Birmingham family, my grandfather, who I knew quite well, Louis, was an extraordinary man who never really did a stroke of work all through his life. My grandmother I never knew, Mick's mother[…]
[…]: F1It attracted me even at that age the intimacy of the cinema. The magic of the beam of light coming out you couldn't see where it came from but I knew that when I after seeing a few films I turned my head to try and find out where that being came from. I was hooked. I think it has also to do with[…]
[…]ld's offices. But as it happened, Dick Donald was walking up scheme, terrorists round the corner from their offices. And I, we saw each other and he knew I was, and I said, You've closed a number of your cinemas down, what happened to the old projectors? Because being a projection as I was intereste[…]
[…]re you were born. SONG When you went we went to school sort of thing. Okay well I came from a farming family and lived in.SPEAKER: M10Sussex. Born in New Haven and my father. Rented a farm at Sheffield Park just north of Lewes and it was a remarkable house. The farmhouse it was 800 years old court w[…]
