[…]had not really been attempted. And always with one eye, not with any eye on the cinemas, really. Shell had never been interested in the cinemas or in television. They had not been interested in tel... entertainment in that kind of way, or the entertainment media. But they had been very interested in[…]
[…]eatest of films but the one thing it did do, it made an enormous amount of money. It sold literally everywhere and it was on at one cinema, The Cameo Royale in Charing Cross Road for over a year, running every day of the week, making money. It was on the front of the Daily Cinema, as it was then, it[…]
[…]sp;Sarah Erulkar 02:04Well, we were n******, we were called n****** quite often, I've seen my father turned away from places like the Cafe Royal, you know, and we had not many friends. So we were very much, you know, involved with each other as a family, which again, wasn't very good. The[…]
[…]nt process in those days. I had already at this stage, I then went to, to live with my parents in Salsbury. And I had wanted to go to try to get into Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to do the stage management course. But my parents, you know, they just couldn't conceive of me doing anything like that.[…]
[…]k in Margate and three days a week in Ramsgate, and I used to get the train over. And we had two really super art masters. One had come down from the Royal College because the old head had died and the other one had come down because he had bad health. They were both very good art masters...they fou[…]
[…]t.com.Bill Ward Side 1 Alan Lawson 0:00 The copyright of this recording is vested in the Bectu History Project, Bill Ward, television technician since 1936 director, producer, programme executive, interviewer, Norman Swallow with Alan Lawson recorded on the 21st of January[…]
[…], no, this was after Ealing.Sydney Samuelson: That was at Elstree?Erica Masters: No, no, at Twickenham. Yes.Sydney Samuelson: Oh, I'm thinking of his television series at Elstree, OK...Erica Masters: And on the Robin Hood series.Sydney Samuelson: The Richard Greene Robin Hood?Erica Masters: Yes the […]
[…]put up there by promoting was calmed in those days, we had a bill probably Imperial airways. And to catch a flying boat in a couple of days time, the Royal Palace Hotel, they have sets. And so there we are, living in state. Prior just prior to that, going home the evening before, I had to cross this[…]
[…]rk, documentaries. There was also a lot of work at Merton Park with the Film Producer's Guild. At that time they'd just started doing some series for television and they did a series called Stryker of the Yard - [chuckles] I'm trying to think of the star in it - Bruce Sheltzilt[?]? [NB Clifford Evan[…]
