[…]ble thing was we used to go round to, I didn't get any money for this, they went round to various, they were called workhouses in those days you know public institutions were elderly people used to be looked after more or less looked after, dreadful places really. And we used to perform the scenes f[…]
[…]urne.John Legard: It was like a prep school was it in Taunton?Rodney Giesler: Yes. It was the junior part of Kings College which was one of the minor public schools, and I took the entrance exam for Pangbourne and got in from there. If I can move on a bit. I was still gung-ho for the navy, and it ta[…]
[…]specifically for ballet and it was both interesting and desperately depressing, the results.They did research. I have some quotes here from the public. I can’t remember how large a sample it was or indeed what percentage of the television it covered in those days. The audience report came up w[…]
[…]rophones that they could cut out the sound so that if they had to give somebody a cue they could give them the cue and release the button so that the public, the viewers didn't hear them being cued. But that was the, the, the sort of line up in the office. And I, I mean everything, like finance beca[…]
[…]nobody showed me where to get out afterwards. And you put the board in a new bag, a new announcer with a very tremulous voice because it's your first public appearance. And then you rush to get out but the lights all the way around you. And on top of that are people screaming at you saying get out. […]
[…]back into work. I was asked to be in a very dreamy child. And then I went to the Ipswich Preparatory School, which was the junior part of the Ipswich public school. But we were taken to the cinema but rarely our parents who both was religious I had an elder sister and a younger brother for films &nb[…]
[…]ough Admiralty and through the local Navy departments as well - because nobody ever made a film about submarines, they were too secret, you didn't do publicity like that - but I had the unusual, it turned out later, I had the unusual habit of regarding anything that was good propaganda for Britain d[…]
[…]t all sorts of people, apart from the people that I've pinpointed. I attacked all the people from England, which included John Myers, who was Korda's publicity manager, and Imperiali[?] Katie Boyle's father, Nigel Tangye, who was aviation advisor on the film that Korda was making called 'Conquest of[…]
[…]s, he knows Whitley Bay." And so forth and so on. And I said, "Well I'm sorry you're quite wrong." And I was very worried. I also get a call from our Publicity Manager, er Controller in London, "You must do something to restore our good faith." I just didn't know. I expect you've heard of Lord Westw[…]
[…]ing paid the princes arm of two pound 10 a week. I went back to them in the May of 39 at two pounds 10 per week, and stayed there as secretary to the publicity director for three years and again, Fox British lives, but they did get me across to Pinewood to work with Hugh Alexander, who would publici[…]
