[…] we went through French customs alright, when we got to Paris, going up the Champs Elysee we again ran out of petrol, we hadn’t got any money and the Pathe . . . . . . . the French newsreel said 'Well come and stay with us, we will pay all your expenses’. Then we got back as far as Dover without any[…]
[…] bothered, it really is.Roy Fowler: [In Cockney accent]: No bother, Lady, no bother!Joan Kemp-Welch: Well, I don't know, you're a lovely sympathetic person to talk to.Roy Fowler: pish-tash!?John P Hamilton This is the start, this is what it's all about...Joan Kemp-Welch: [Ch[…]
[…]y. And one of the jobs the director has is to try and pull these two people together so they don’t go at each other’s throats, because they're not sympathetic with the way each other work. And it’s quite a business doing that.After the workshop, I’m doing a comedy at the Watermill called The Drummer[…]
[…]r soul?'" and Mrs Cooper said "It was the name of the Butcher in our village when I was a little girl".SC: That Gordon Craig became very important in Pathe News .So now, how did you get into films?EC: Oh well, by that time I had tasted liberty, because you may have thought that Basil Dean was a bit […]
[…]sort of putdown, to some extent I’m afraid, and maybe, I mean I think it’s true too, that George Barnes was probably again a word man and not very sympathetic. Although he was much more visually inclined than Sir William, I mean he did, you know, he was a collector of paintings and china and all tha[…]
[…]e it wasn't so bad. And so the next film I got was The Return Of The Scarlet Pimpernel which was with Barry K Barnes who'd been in a film This Man Is News before that, a newspaper story which was made over at Pinewood, and directed by Hanns Schwarz and, and lit by Mu[…]
[…]'s a minimum number of lenses per camera. ButAlan Lawson 8:35 actually we've jumped we've jumped to after the war. I haven't been because news didn't start until after the war.Alf Cooper 8:43 No. You started at your day job. I couldn't start until the war commitments are here[…]
