[…]ul lot of work to do pre-production, breaking down all those clothes. I mean I used to make the men wear those sort of skin [?] coats while they were polishing boots or doing any jobs in the wardrobe so that you got all the right... you can’t guess where creases come, well you can, but you know[…]
[…] on one day, there was a terrible argument as to who was due to be first. And I can remember to this day they started fighting, and I had a marvelous Polish officer as a liaison officer. There wasn't a single language he didn't speak, but he was in uniform, and the poles in those days still had swor[…]
[…]l. So I, I moved over to, he, he had a very small production company, and we were working on films for the War effort. We went, we took charge of the Polish film unit, who were in Denham labs at that time, very nice crowd of people. And there was a very good director called Cekalski, I think that's […]
[…] family thought it rather dangerous to send me out there for six months. Roy Fowler  4:02  This is what?   To polish your languages? Adam Dawson  4:04  I was doing languages, yes.  So when I went up to Oxford, I decided I'd d[…]
[…] only a few years - the wife - you know Robert Paul?Roy Fowler : No, I'm a youngster.Ella Mallett : Now let me see, what did she say? Her husband was Polish, although he had an English name. He was Bert Bernard[?], Robert Paul was the Chief.Roy Fowler : Oh I beg your pardon, Paul, I thought you said[…]
[…]p;keep. That's why they allowed him to keep his house is his bungalow important Polish bar. But yes I think they did. They did the cut off his pension whic[…]
[…]s around to be picked up. You wouldn’t think of doing it today, let alone walk home alone in the blackouts with a total stranger, but my friend met a Polish gentleman that worked in the Polish film industry who knew Kleeman at Gainsborough Studios, who was the studio manager. So cutting a long story[…]
[…]re being opened up: broadcasting; meeting every European nationality some of them couldn't speak English. Putting out news talks in Czecho-Slovak, in Polish, German, French no problem. Spanish. We weren’t doing, we weren’t speaking to Franco. In Italian, so one’s brains became quite, quite flexible […]
[…]y them. Mm, but no, we did it Monday and then we edited it, and it usually went out the following Sunday night. But it too in latter years to get the polish and to get the commentary done and to get the opening we always used to say, the editor and I that it was always the opening and the end that t[…]
[…]member rightly would be at about deep square leg if I could remember the position of me. But anyway we moved on from there. We went by another boat a Polish boat called the S.S. General Pulaski which took us from Durban to court said it was quite a nice journey up the from Durban to port so we went […]
