[…]ondon in 1957 at Hyde Park corner. There used to be a hospital there, which is now a poshMike Dick 1:33 hotel. Could you give me just for posterity again? Could you just give me the date of date and 25thSpeaker 1 1:37 of October, 1957 and my parents at the time, lived in Lond[…]
[…]o made one or two quite successful films as well, including the the Girls School . What was that - St Trinians comedies and things like that that was post war to it was. And Roy Fowler 1 1:01:01 they were at Gainsburgh, I think at this point with where they at Ronald […]
[…]re were people like Bob Haley, for example, who became in charge of operations.Gerald Chambers 9:57 Yes.John P Hamilton 10:00 post that we had not experienced before Rediffusion. It may have happened in other companies, but it hadn't been in our experience at Rediffusion. He […]
[…]brother who had been called back into the army at that time came from a rifle car. And I left school at 14 My parents always wanted me to go into the post office and like gone to the post office exams. I didn't really want to do that.Roy Fowler 1:22 Was that the family connection?Dennis […]
[…] he used to arrange for courses. In those days, the Post Office used to supply projectionists and equipment to a […]
[…]ntually I ended up on the next floor, with my Pop and his men. He was in an office, of course. And he used to arrange for courses. In those days, the Post Office used to supply projectionists and equipment to a lot of the museums, like the Science Museum had its own theatre. And my father was respon[…]
[…]use by and largethis was their careers.John Taylor: Did you go overseas at allBill Cotton Jr: No, I decided I didn't want to do that so I invited the postings officer to see my father at the Palladium and during that time I suggested a UK posting would be helpful. And I went to Scotland. If there ha[…]
[…]I was told that, that I can remember was a Lupino Lane show called Sweetheart Mine which was about 1937 or 38 and I, we were very proud to see on the poster written by Lauri Wylie.. But that’s the height, of - that’s the maximum amount of fame that I ever knew about.Q: Now, now coming back again to […]
[…]one wrong, because during the war by and large we were makingvery good, very successful pictures, efficiently, well made as pictures, all of a sudden,post war, and again maybe it was the rush for the American marketMaurice Carter: That is what it was. Exactly. To be as spectacular as the Americans.R[…]
[…]say it's Willy Wilkinson's birthday will you take a page. Ah yes, no argument, no argument because he was a very powerful man.RF: Is this immediately post BIP, after Maid of the Mountains.VG: After. That was ‘34, somewhere round there.RF: Your recollections of Korda at that stage.VG: Alex was always[…]
