[…]e didn't do anything very much with sick we did commentary, wild effects and that kind of thing. I didn't learn cuts, think until, until I was in the Royal Air Force.Unknown Speaker  4:11  What actually did you do in in this, in this film unit, and yourself? Pretty well, everything. I wrot[…]
[…] who later on married Mary Pickford.I went on cutting pictures there for some time and Worked on quite a few films in a short time. I also worked on 'Royal Cavalcade'. It was designed to celebrate 25 years of George V as reigning monarch. Everybody in the studio worked on that – all the editors, all[…]
[…]they said was, what grade are you? Well, my grade was zero. SoUnknown Speaker  6:25  I ended up one radio and links. And that really wasn't television.Unknown Speaker  6:32  And I saw an advertisement for staff at a TV.Unknown Speaker  6:38  And I applied for the job wh[…]
[…]iversity immediately. So I had real jobs before I went and I worked for Leeds highways department I remember in cuts or road opposite where Yorkshire Television finished up hidden in Leeds. And I worked for Lewis's the big store and got the sack. I was emptying crates in the basement and talking a l[…]
[…]rkers Union are saying, 'no' you can't have the job, because you learnt the trade in England." So, fair enough. So anyway, I stayed on at The Theatre Royal. Then I heard about a cinema in Belfast - Union Cinemas, Border Street, were opening up The Ritz, Belfast. So I wrote to the chief engineer - it[…]
[…]rst beginnings with film. And I remember making a film when I was on embarcation leave just before I went to the Far East when I was in the army, the Royal Engineers. And I made a film, a sort of silly thriller thing called Horror about 2 escaped convicts with all my family in it. Alan Lawson: […]
[…]a wrap over the knuckles, because when I went to New York with The Old Vic, I was supposed to come back and either join the National or join the RSC [Royal Shakespeare Company]. And I didn’t, I went off and had good time. I was away for two years. So, I always felt it was a bit like that. But anyway[…]
[…]ears laterbecause they'd been abandoned and pushed off to another island in the Pacific and had beenreally very badly treated by Britain; Very little royalty money. And they've seen other peopledo very well in the same circumstances. So they came to Britain in the shape of their Chief'sson, who was […]
[…]ctress whose films included Somebody’s Darling (1925) and Cinders (1926) CB: Oh, quite... oh quite a few years ago. I was playing at the Theatre Royal. She came to see me and she looked absolutely wonderful. But that was quite a few years ago now... I: She lived in some sort of..CB: so her brai[…]
