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[…] I think our attitude particularly, coming from Oxford, was very open and pragmatic. And one would certainly admit, as one […]

[…]d then we went on showing these films like Potemkin on 16mm. As far as Kino was concerned we were all volunteers, I mean I still was working in - I'd opened up - even a butcher's shop and I was still functioning there, but we were functioning in Kino and running the organisation. It was early 1935 t[…]

[…] a sloping board like that as you can when you open the old-fashioned pot, which you could do very, very […]

[…]and everything else in the thing. So don't get it the wrong way. But anyway, because the pubs were busy, because in that time, the pubs were not open all day. They used to open up until about three o'clock, close and then open up again about half past five in the evenings or something. And the […]

[…]es, and we were on the third floor I think it was, and he was going up to the fourth floor, it was just the two of us, he came in the lift, the doors opened, he got in and [they] shut, and I knew of course who he was, but Jeremy Isaacs turned round to me and he said “I don’t know you – who are you?”[…]

[…] And this was roundabout the time of the Jameson Raid and all that, but they thought it would be only polite to invite Oom Paul down from Pretoria to open it. And the Presidential train duly arrived, and Oom Paul descended in his stovepipe hat and he was taken to the doors of this synagogue. And he […]

[…] just do not believe that you can get as sensitive a movement, whatever you’re doing, going up and down a sloping board like that as you can when you open the old-fashioned pot, which you could do very, very delicately.  And I used to say to these young chaps in television, ‘I don’t know how yo[…]

[…]nd it didn't do any good. I wrote to Ronnie Neame. Nothing. As usual there was the periodic crisis. High unemployment and the union wasn't willing to open up anything. Anyway I was living in our house in Ashford. My father was travelling abroad a lot on business. Fortunately he gave me an allowance […]

[…]ly on this girl. I mean she has magnetism she’s going to be a big star”. So it was, we went to Philly then we went back to New York and I went to the opening night of ‘Funny Girl’ because of course it was the company but it was kinda marvellous because she was a star overnight. And I’d seen that cau[…]

[…] periodic crisis. High unemployment and the union wasn't willing to open up anything. Anyway I was living in our house […]