[…]icity job for about a year before I retired, we made, we took photographs and displayed them on a on a screen, on a screen, on a screen, sort of like television screen. And we had a little talk with them, you see. And that was done on a steel loop. And we had that, but I didn't use much in magnetic&[…]
[…] released prints. You had to pay a tax what? Yeah, I'm not sure what the taxes were. It's not a tax in effect. It's a cost. I can't think of the word royal That's it. That's it, you had to pay a royalty on all Prince. Anyway. Anyways, I was there I learned quite obviously quite a lot. I used to run […]
[…]k, we've got film of him playing and he recounted all sorts of stories. A wonderful character. He was a late, blossoming star. He was rediscovered by television companies who all wanted to come and interview him. So he went out with a on a very high note, Derek Threadgall 16:08 […]
[…]ne 1940.Speaker 1 0:15 Okay, tell me about your family background to begin with whether were you related to anybody who worked in film or television? No, not at all.Speaker 2 0:23 My dad was in the army and we stayed up in Northampton share until after the war, actually, and […]
[…] Well, I'm when I was in one of the musicals I met my my first partner, Cyril Ornade and when we started writing songs, and in those days, television used a lot of original material in the musical shows, in a Saturday show, for instance, it was boat race day or if somebody was coming over[…]
[…]years afterwards.RF: Well if we know the year you were born, it could be traced because all the records are at Berkhampstead in the National Film and Television Archive, so you joined when, in '42 would you say?LK: YesRF: Well if anyone wants to they can go through the '42 applicationsMH: You didn't[…]
[…]gh that that's what you got. Of course, if that had gone through film technicians then probably would now have residuals because nobody thought about television. So if they, if, if they hadn't met this absolute opposition...Ah.It would have, anyway, because it's not my interview it's yours. I just t[…]
[…]probably about December 57 I got it now OHMS letter, which said that the Queen needed me and so I went off to do my two years national service in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Most people when they go into the service went into services. If they asked their job, they were given something totally di[…]
[…]ng', but in those days they were very much um... very British and very nice and in those days they did good business because there was no independent television. Television was still not the threat that it later became. It was still transmitting only at limited hours during the day and cinema-going […]
