[…] Roy Fowler : Yes. Ella Mallett : And a little royal box in a silly place. The screen was on […]
[…]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[…]
[…]r. Fisher of Geneva, one for sugar detective, a one for tenders tonight. And I've got one award for for services to television over the years for the Royal Television Society. And I've got an award for special photography for a film called The Black Velvet gun from the beffta. Northeast. Wow.Unknown[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]I sat the prelims in the University. Got the Maths, yet again, and I didn't get the French so I thought, 'Right, OK. I cannae do that! What about the Royal College of Science and Technology?' One thing less required - Lower French. Got it! Got in there and unfortunately, by this point, my mother had[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]ng really because it was checking the prints as they came back from people that they'd been rented out to. And they supplied people like you know the Royal Yacht Britannia. The Queen would hire films from this company but they also sent films out to prisons, which was a challenge because if there wa[…]