[…]any, which was quite an exciting town. The town is an old Hanseatic town which was totally destroyed by the Germans and has been rebuilt since by the Polish government so faithfully from old photographs that when I went three years ago I recognised every house, the school I went to, and the house wh[…]
[…] in Applied Photography and that was the way into the Polish Film Unit as they wanted somebody with slight technical knowledge who […]
[…]e shillings. I had a youth suit and it was a grey check and all I did for the first four weeks of my working life for this terrible man was scrub and polish and I was actually through the knees of that suit within four weeks.00:18:3900:19:3900:20:28It was probably made of cardboard anyway cos thirty[…]
[…] before then at Gaumont. And it's quite amusing that there was I understand at the old Gaumont Studios, a long corridor, which was known as the Polish Corridor because the Balcons were at the end of it! Anyway, he, the family was a middle-class Birmingham family, my grandfather, who I kn[…]
[…] Oh,Interviewer 2:48 military rank where they sticklers for military disciplineGordon Hales 2:53 without without the spit and polish serious? and so on and so forth. No, they knew their place because they had been trained to know their place but they were I am assuming that t[…]
[…]id “well, you’re going in there as liaison. There’s only twenty-six English airmen and you’re going in as liaison for us.” “Liaison to who?” I said. “Polish Air Force”. So, there I was, two thousand Poles and twenty-six Englishmen, highest rank Flight Lieutenant. All called each other by our first n[…]
[…] them down to kerfield, because we had this huge house. We had nothing else, but we had a huge house. And David got involved with Ricky in bringing a Polish theater company called crico Two, run by an extraordinary Polish artist director called thalias cantor. And she to get a long story short, she […]
[…]now, like the old people's ideas of the old days of freeze freeze of hold the front page, and it's all very matcher. And although there was some very polish in refined young ladies working there, the language, you know, the the air was blue with obscenity of sentences. That was just that was just th[…]
[…]ry distant manMaurice Carter: He had a great reputation at that time from his work in the States, and asI said the whole studio had to be painted and polished before he came, the floor waspolished, it was that sort of recognition of his significance in the studioRoy Fowler: Was he a pro.Maurice Cart[…]
[…] time on the dubbing and all these effects and things that that you’ve got to put on.” The Earl said, “Well I think it gives it all a bit of a polish you know, which I think is very necessary” and he really stood up for me at that stage.ROY FOWLER: John Davis actually would come down and pass[…]
