[…]ust run 24 hours a day animated cartoon films. I've forgotten the name of one but it was actually I think it was based on Piccadilly Circus there and newsreels rockin usual type of thing. But it was all animation. You know, we all the old Warner Brothers, Road Runners. And that's where I think we go[…]
[…]on the team award. Well, we spring watch one the team award. And I will do is that I think it was two years ago. 2016. Not RTS. But I think pro sound news did a team award we won that for happily, or unhappily. I've not got an individual BAFTA or an individual award. They're always teams.Unknown Spe[…]
[…]e (laughter) and knows how, kind of obstreperous I was during that period. But I learned a lot. So I was taken on to direct something called Northern Newsreel. And the idea was, it was soon after the miners' strike. And they'd had these miners' tapes that had circulated and they were talking the day[…]
[…], the film laboratories or the BBC. So that was clearly a very important thing to do. In fact, a lady who turned out to be my mother-in-law, saw in a newspaper, a tiny little thing saying ‘Holiday Relief assistants needed at the BBC’: camera assistants. So I applied. DB: My memory is that the B[…]
[…]ed the life of Riley, the British did too. I mean, there was a war going on, obviously, because we kept hearing about it. And there were cartoons and news reels, and things like that cartoons with anti German anti Hitler.But as a child, I grew up in the most wonderful way. I was born in a very beaut[…]
[…]y.And another memory was that Mike Yarwood, the comedian, while he was with us, his wife gave birth to their first child.Interviewer:And who took the news? Barry Quinton: Well, we were all told before the actual performance started that she'd given birth, if my memory serves me right, I th[…]
[…]eah.” “When you get home,” he said, “You take ‘em off… well, you’d take ‘em off anyway, wouldn’t you? But take ‘em off,” he said, “and get some newspaper and ram it!.. ram it up… ram it up…. the toe of the shoe. Get it? Wet it down, and get some more wet newspaper and ram it up… an[…]
[…]ctor. So, erm, ah…then I did ah….in the open-air theatre I did er…The Winter’s Tale and played Vermillious, and actually got a notice for that in the news chronicle. And er…but I still didn’t really like the idea of acting. Then I went to Shepherd’s Bush, and was interviewed by a fat man who said “h[…]
