[…]inema manager I would become. Part of this period involved the projectionists at the Film Guild accepting me as one of their own and teaching me the craft of film care and projection which stood me in great stead in later years especially when some projectionists tried to indulge their favourite pas[…]
[…]t very high, but then again, those days, five pounds a week was worth having a 40 pounds a week or more. Did you run a car? Yes. I. I won a car and a raffle Essex car, and I don't think I could afford the petrol, so I gave it up. I sold it afterwards, but that was a Goon British. SoRoy Fowler […]
[…] film at the Teddington National Physical Laboratories and one of the things we did was the see the windmill on which they test out models of air aircraft and I remember being quite fascinated by Dallas Bower's way of dealing with thisStephen Peet 27:29 Windmill, or a wind tu[…]
[…] classic introduction to the cinema. It was quite a long essay. And blow me, that weekend it was Battle of Britain week, and I went over to the local RAF aerodrome. There was an Auster there giving short flights. We were queueing up for it, and in the queue in front of me was Anthony Asquith.John Le[…]
[…] a carpenter and father was in the boiler house George who was the greatest chess draughts player that I've ever met. Nobody could ever beat Giorgio drafts Ernie Ames was the chief electrician Jimmy Powell was chief floor man And. The man called Gordon Bishop was up on the gantry. And. People like t[…]
[…] of Britain week, and I went over to the local RAF aerodrome. There was an Auster there giving short flights. […]
[…]is LV, who had directed my mother in films. And he knew his job, technically. But most of the directors had been through the thing of learning their craft. Today, if a young man comes to see me and wants a job in the studio, and I say, Well, what department do you want to go into? What was your ambi[…]
[…]et on and off, there's no peers. And I said, I've got an idea. We'll try and get because the wars finished by this time, we'll try and get a landing craft. And I managed and succeeded to persuade somebody in the not the War Office. The Admiralty, I suppose led to let her a smallish landing craft, wh[…]
[…] been on the Board for Anne. To wind right back, the Director of the IWM at the time I joined it was a man called Dr Noble Frankland, who had been in RAF Bomber Command as a navigator during the war and had then gone back. He’d interrupted his academic career to fight. He went back to Oxford, and be[…]
[…] was at Blackheath, which was still operating as a studio for the GPO Film Unit/Crown. And in talking with him it became quite clear that I wasn't a draftsman and I wasn't a model-maker and I wasn't really suited to that at all. So then it was thought that I would go as Ken Cameron's assistant in th[…]
