Jonathan Balcon

[…]in Aberdeen. Oh, no, no, there was no doubt about it, there was no sense of that at all. Except, of course, he was obviously extremely worried by the news coming out of Germany. He was instrumental, he in fact he employed Renata Muller in a film. He was responsible indirectly for getting a number of[…]

Jill Balcon (Day-Lewis)

[…]to read books properly, I used to go up to my bedroom to read.  We had, like many families who had a radio where we heard the first ghastly news about war being declared, there was a big, heavy Bush radio on the floor in the dining room, where you had to have an appointment with the radio […]

Derek Threadgall

[…]e a King Kong was there. And of course we wanted couldn't go in to see King Kong H cert but we enjoyed it looking at the stills outside. That was the news we got to Kin g Kong cause I've seen it since many times. But at the time it sort of rankled with us. Of course we were always prone to joining i[…]

Ann Turner

[…]t, and Peter Hunt on the script writers and doing research in Skye in extreme dreadful sharing a bedroom in this dreadful hotel and throwing the Skye News or something. And that was where the phrase who knew another god a Happy Christmas to all our readers Yes. Started as this little slogan, amongst[…]

Gerry Fisher

[…] have started up again, but then in Grafton, all that stuff.But I went home on the two weeks or even during the time I was on my two weeks leave. The news came out that they dropped the atom bomb on Japan. And so my two weeks leave didn't result in my having to go to the Far East. And so some some m[…]

John Shirley

[…]is calvet Diana when yarn was directed by Carol Reed, and as that will have it very shortly, the studio became a two line. Studio, which was very big news in those days. And I found myself working with Michael Gordon, on the ghost train or a remake of the ghost train with Arthur ASCII and stinker Mu[…]

L P (Bill) Williams

[…]tting as I'd already got two pips anyhow [laughs]. But anyhow, there I was, and I was waiting for the second breakfast on 7th December 1941, when the news came over the tannoy that the Japs had attacked Pearl Harbour. And I thought "ah". I knew then, I'd got a pretty good idea before, but I knew the[…]
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