Moira Armstrong

[…]ng?Yes. Including...Do you remember any, any particular ones which, which stand out, ‘Maigret’?‘Maigret’.It certainly did. [Laughter]Yes. In fact the opening titles of the, the shadow of the branch as he strike his match against the wall was me holding a branch of leaves. [Laughter][Laughter]And I d[…]

Geoff Hermges

[…]ave any particular brand that you like? And I said, Well, actually, Dick here I do. I like Garvey's San Patricio. That's a very strange thing. And he opened his leather briefcase. I can see it in his back room at Sand house, where he produced some cold potatoes, a bottle, two glasses and a bottle of[…]

Mike Bradsell

[…]rom the south end area, if we could, was that I think only one bomb fell in that area throughout the war. And that was under a pub when it was wasn't open. And we, we were right in the middle of the Blitz in Potters Bar, because it was, the loafer would come in maybe to bomb the docks. And if they m[…]

Elizabeth (Liz) Bale

[…]emember was when we finished work, we used to go to the viewing galleries, which I think were on the fourth level, because there are only two studios open. I think it was four and five, I can't remember. And we could look in and watch said, cars and things like that being shot, you know. And we alwa[…]

Interview

[…] Sidney Howard. But I broke away from the dressing rooms and I had to go and see, for the first time in my life, the interior of a film studio, and I opened those huge double doors and there was this vast and wonderfully Smithers, a wonderful smell comes out of Studio is a sort of size and paint and[…]

Interview

[…]rom the south end area, if we could, was that I think only one bomb fell in that area throughout the war. And that was under a pub when it was wasn't open. And we, we were right in the middle of the Blitz in Potters Bar, because it was, the loafer would come in maybe to bomb the docks. And if they m[…]

Robert M (Bob) Angell

[…] the theatre and in photography, and in films, not a film buff, but I just and living Gerrards cross, I suppose denim studios was built, Pinewood was opening. And I remember very well, seeing the, the British LAN van going up the Oxford road every day from bekins field studios, which is owned by Bri[…]

Lois Singer

[…]hat people should do. Anyway, these days, even after they pass the test.  But I could get turned from Elstree in 15 minutes, which meant that it opened my horizons enormously. And having a car literally changed my life because I could work longer hours, I could nip home at lunchtime and put the[…]

Sheelagh Rees

[…]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[…]

A A (Tubby) Englander

[…] The heat had to be dispensed with, and he organised a flask of liquid oxygen with a pipe which sprayed onto the gate aperture and when the valve was opened of the liquid oxygen of course it atomised - vaporised rather - it vaporised and you had this ice cold, literally ice cold, jet of air playing […]
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