[…]aughter]And I was invited to the first night and of course, that was a thrill. I mean to go to the first night at Covent Garden, this was when it had opened. Now before that it had been used as a dance hall. You know, they took the, all the seats out of the auditorium and I actually with some of the[…]
[…] if there was a crisis on each day, but he did well. I was very because I was having to park, get ready and compile all the lists. It was before we'd opened, but so he went, and there was a knock. I had the office adjoining his, and I thought I heard a knock, and I poked my head through the door, ca[…]
[…], in certain days of the week, you had to clean brass is Polish, all that anything that had brass, there was a curtain, a plate with curtain buttons, open, close, and so on. And you had to polish all that. And then I didn't do that early on. And then later on, I had to take the potholes out every so[…]
[…]ed off, Simpson's closed the steel shutters between departments....Alan Lawson: [Chuckles over interviewee]David Prosser: and there might be three to open before you can get out of that department into another one. This cause a lot of trouble, so Tony produced this letter from Churchill, (they sensi[…]
[…] did all sorts of stuff, we can talk more about him later if you like but from the point of view of this interview, one of his major interests was to open up the IWM’s film collection and he was one of the leading lights behind the efforts to get the collection properly looked at and get a sound bas[…]
[…]edal Shows and he saw me as a prospect. I went to see him. In the mean-time Robert Atkins who directed St. Joan, who ran the Regents Park open air Shakespeare, wanted me to join his company and I didn’t particularly want to do that and he said “Oh you have gone off with an agent” and all[…]
[…] knows what.SF: Yes, yes.He used to dress up in Victorian gear...SF: Yes.And go round Europe in this 1928 Alvis.SF: Yes.And do things. So we’d go and open, I think we opened The National Film Archive in Brussels.SF: Ah, ha.And we went to Stockholm. And I remember going to Berlin because I’d never, y[…]
[…]r to get to because I lived about three miles away from it in wonder one of the London boroughs north of WoodGreen and because the effects department open for the open university it was run by very clever guy Jerry Abu off again sadly died many many years ago now. And he was there setting up effects[…]
[…]all so tiny, so there was a big car park and they were all put in caravans, and if ever the head of department or anybody wanted to see them I had to open my window and yell out, you know, [Laughter] to whoever was around, pass it down, you know. [Laughter]Sure. Have you any idea of the quantity of […]
