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[…]s in good stead for working. And so I got a job at the advertising agency in West End. And I was there for about a year or so into my got news of ITV opening in 55, September 55. So at the advertising agency, we got all the bumps coming in about the new ITV components. And a friend of mine who worke[…]

[…]o-director credit. [section about some older people still working] How about Micky Balcon himself?Robert Beatty: Always very pleasant. He asked me to open a fete which was either his church fete or a local thing and they asked him down, and he sent the car for me and I had lunch with him and Lady Ba[…]

[…]r which Grandma Collins, who was a formidable little five foot lady, always dressed in severe black with the high boned collars, and they laid on the opening show for the Kilburn Empire, which was such-and-such a poem recited by Mr So-and-So Collins, and this song sung by someone else, and all the l[…]

[…]it and play the tape and hopefully somebody was watching it! I: So, '74, that was quite early days for video, wasn't it? Half-inch? Was that the open reel half inch? R: Yes. I can't remember what the make was but yes. And then we made another film at the University based on the poem 'Not W[…]

[…]nbsp;7:02  But he was he was the chairman and vice chairman of the Hara. Communist Party. Yes. as well. I mean, he never made any secret or very open about the whole thing. He was very anti or that time with parents, because they did not share his his views. And I remember working with him one […]

[…]probably 'King of the Damned'] I know we had two thousand extras on it and we shot a lot of it at Northolt where Gaumont's and Gainsborough had a bit open air lot.Alan Lawson: By the - what became the racecourse didn't it?Leonard Harris: Yeah it was I think a racecourse and a cemetery I believe it t[…]

[…]evision. Television started in 1946 and I with a lot of the others applied to go over. We were accepted and of course we went over before the studios opened. In those years we had two studios, A and B. One was Marconi and the other was Baird. We did a week in each studio. So we used to have to learn[…]