[…]was no ill feeling with Kodak, they taught me an awful lot, and I do smile as I go back in time thinking of… in 2004, 2005 I think it was, after we’d opened the film operations in Spain and Italy you know, the worldwide aspects of the Ranks and the DeLuxe as they were known at the time, I sat with t[…]
[…]n-mixed? R: The very first programme that I vision-mixed was Late Call which was the religious programme last thing at night. Five minutes long. Opening caption, go to the minister, the minister talks for five minutes, go to the closing caption, a bit of music and that's it done. And managed to[…]
[…]portunity for you. You'll be working with Andrea Brymer", he said. "Now, you look at her and it's as if she's from the South Sea islands but when she opens her mouth", he says, "she's clearly the daughter of a Brechin butcher!" He said, "It's a devastating combination!" I: And in terms of, you […]
[…]takes his girlfriend to a ... In those days,once again it was in the fifties, it was quite common for people if they had a decent garden they used to open it up to the public for afternoon tea. [TIME 00.06.53] I mean it wasn’t a shop or anything, it was just people did it and you went along and[…]
[…] favourite one, which I think they did try me was Simon, could you go and buy us a packet of sprocket holes? Like I knew that wasn't true. And I know open the labs. There was some pretty tough initiation ceremonies which we were kind of nice little bumps down the sound upon But I know if you know pe[…]
[…], Halifax, you know, and so on, right through to Hull. And sort of hitting each town at about nine o'clock at night, and the only thing that was ever open was Chinese restaurants. So for nine nights, we got sick of Chinese food by the time we got to Hull. But very friendly people, very trusting peop[…]
[…]uding the sister of the boxer, Erskine – what was his name?SF: Joe Erskine?Was it Joe... Anyway, whatever. So that was, I suppose, my first opening up to other cultures or other nationalities.SF: Did you experience racism? I don’t mean on you, but on them during the schoolyears? Was there […]
[…] first weekend I went to have a bath, and none of the bathrooms locked and I was lent a bath by one of the people there. And suddenly the door banged open and in walked three small girls, about seven they were then, and they sort of stood there and looked at me and I looked back andthey said, ‘Oh we[…]
[…]p of cardboard, took the old shutter off, put it on the front of the shutter, boss on front, re time the intermittent movement So we've got the opening closing the shutter correct, and we carried on like that for a couple of days. till we got a new blade, and this so cinema still s[…]
[…] General in those days was a housewife mother. And I have a very early memory of the First World War, because quite clearly, I can remember my father opening the window in the bedroom, in which they slept and I as a baby with the role of a Zeppelin going overhead, that must mean I was no more than t[…]
