[…]e's always this terrible story about why he was never knighted…. And it's always, the story goes that he was sitting with the then Princess Royal in the balcony while the coronation of our Queen was going on. And then the great Princess of Tonga came past, an enormous lady in an open carri[…]
[…]John Legard: Absolutely.Pat Jackson: But, er...I mean they were magical days...magic. I mean, imagine at the age of eighteen, nineteen...going on the Royal Scot on the footplate and stoking it as we climbed over Beattock. Which I was allowed to do. I mean, fabulous experiences for a seventeen-year-o[…]
[…]it's board in Marvel small bay where we were we, nevertheless, we could be content ourselves with thinking, Well, after all, it's the newest thing to royalty amongst the you know what? Next one that was followed by, oh, that was fun to be intriguing the man in winter. Yes, Tony Harvey directing. Tha[…]
[…]newood Studios in 1935. And I could not believe my luck to go to an actual film studio and I remember walking about the place. I was supposed to be a royal Aircross when in, in a film called splinters in the air, the star of which was an old comedian called Sidney Howard. But I broke away from the d[…]
[…]hoved the stage under my nose. Because I was spotted in the street while working at Biba. Took two days off, went to some slightly sleazy room in the Royal... not the Royal Garden Hotel, the one at Sloane Square. Top of that one. Met some sleazy Italian producers. They gave me 30 pounds a day. Did I[…]
[…]d it was a lovely cinema. But I wasn't so thrilled with it. But I did see some films there. I saw the flight of the white heron, which was one of the Royal tours. And that was my first CinemaScope and I was sitting in the front row. I was disappointed I didn't get into see proper entertainment film.[…]
[…]were advised that if he wanted to promote music, that that was the best course of action to take was to maybe do a deal and share a percentage of the royalties, if you like, for the publisher to go out and promote and market none of which they did. So it's been it's been a this a disappointment, I h[…]
[…]change was made, the new film stocks were introduced with technical papers at technical conferences run by the BKSTS (British Kinematograph Sound and Television Society) and also in the US the SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers). I was involved with some of those presentations[…]
[…]newood Studios in 1935. And I could not believe my luck to go to an actual film studio and I remember walking about the place. I was supposed to be a royal Aircross when in, in a film called splinters in the air, the star of which was an old comedian called Sidney Howard. But I broke away from the d[…]
