[…]?'" and Mrs Cooper said "It was the name of the Butcher in our village when I was a little girl".SC: That Gordon Craig became very important in Pathe News .So now, how did you get into films?EC: Oh well, by that time I had tasted liberty, because you may have thought that Basil Dean was a bit stiff,[…]
[…]didn’t think we did more than that. So that was a very interesting series. We did two programmes up in Liverpool about a community school and about a newspaper called The Tuebrook Bugle, which was a community newspaper started by a marvellous character called Chrissie Maher, who has now become […]
[…]e it wasn't so bad. And so the next film I got was The Return Of The Scarlet Pimpernel which was with Barry K Barnes who'd been in a film This Man Is News before that, a newspaper story which was made over at Pinewood, and directed by Hanns Schwarz and, and lit by Mu[…]
[…]could angle it as you wanted it., I used to take it onto the stage and accompany the acts. Now there, I tell everybody this, we had a second feature, newsreel, cartoon, organ interlude, feature and an hour’s Variety, good Variety. Poor old Semprini he died recently, I accompanied him, and some lovel[…]
[…] managing director, a very nice man, called me into his office and he said, "I know you left school early to get this job but I'm afraid I've got bad news, in two months time we're going to close down because the partners can't agree. So I thought you ought to have as much time as possible to find a[…]
[…]uld be problems, so once you started on the air, things would breakdown. Of course it was the main evening, there would be an opening announcement, a news and then the play and then the closedown, and that would be it.RF: Didn't it occur to someone to clean the equipment on a less important day?BH: […]
[…]st made advertising films for J Walter Thompson, and that was - I enjoyed that. And there again we were lucky, because they wanted, they'd run out of newsprint. They weren't allowed to advertise in the papers or magazines or anything. So, being clever people, they thought, "Aha, film hasn't been rat[…]
[…]'s a minimum number of lenses per camera. ButAlan Lawson 8:35 actually we've jumped we've jumped to after the war. I haven't been because news didn't start until after the war.Alf Cooper 8:43 No. You started at your day job. I couldn't start until the war commitments are here[…]
[…]o there. So we used to use that in the afternoon. And then I mean, what the younger generation are missing now is the fact we used to get the evening news and they got these great big lists of films and variety theatres, you know, quite big piles of them. And you can say we're gonna see tonight we g[…]
