[…]a boy he used to go to the what, weren't they Penny Arcades or whatever?Roy Fowler 11:38 Yes I suppose they were yes. Where they had the crank machines. Yes.Jonathan Balcon 11:43 Yes that's right. And I think this fascinated him. And I think goodness knows where he got it fro[…]
[…]ir technique at the time. We went on after, we made The True Glory which was about the second front.SIDE 2, TAPE 1John Aldred: The Americans flew in Frank Capra to direct this movie. We were all doing fire watching, one evening. And this evening it just happened that his evening coincided with mine.[…]
[…]et amount of flying in aircraft of the RAF, and was offered immediate Commission, which I turned down and took me ordinary Turner starting off in the ranks and finally ended up with commission ended up very unhappily because I joined up because basically, I hated night bombing and wanted to be a fig[…]
[…]o land a job in Mega assembly at technicolour and it was on a shift basis in 1946 mega assembly and technically I applied for the camera department, Frank bush interviewed me and said I'm sorry we have no vacancies. But we I will pass you to Dr. linsay, who was a very learned colour expert, Professo[…]
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[…] game and common sense was that shirt was that a theatrical films will VRC Rankin took it on but really was mainly run in the north of England I think[…]
[…]ugh. [TIME 00.03.56] So, I would say that was the start because I then kept on to my parents and my father fortunately managed to get, it was a hand cranked Bingoscope projector, a very basic little machine which he bought off somebody at work with four little short films and they became my obsessio[…]
[…]a focus puller, you're a corporal, if you're an operator, you're a sergeant, if you're camera man and you became a captain. I'm not certain the exact ranks, but everybody was pouncing around pretending to be soldiers, soldiers and I then they decided that game was a supposed technical knowledge. The[…]
[…] his stuff packed and he didn’t come back again. [LAUGHTER] And I won money on the race. But the trouble was the manager of the theatre, Frank Boare, quite a character in the theatre world in those days, he heard about it and he said, “Now then, you either stop this or get out”. S[…]
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