[…] up in those days. And I remember that there was a programme about Leonardo de Vinci produced by Peter de Francia, who then became a professor at the Royal College of Art, and it overran by about an hour and Mary was somewhat annoyed about that and so was Cecil McGivern, and Peter de Francia merely […]
[…]ia because in fact the French are too mean to give it to you. But there we are. He was a Fellow of the British Film Institute; he was a Fellow of the Royal College of Art; he was an Honorary D Lit Sussex University and he was chairman of the various companies later in life that we'll come to. But le[…]
[…]uld see on an endless films of double bills running for three days each. That amounts to something like 12 features a week. You could see better than television.SPEAKER: M2So that was very important now. All that stopped. More or less when I went to boarding school although I went to boarding school[…]
[…]gramme never came back because we really did do it live on a boat on a Saturday morning. We rehearsed on a Thursday/Friday and the boat set sail, the Royal Iris, on a Saturday morning and it was reading technology, which apparently had been developed to try and cover Francis Chichester going round t[…]
[…]a conventional syllabus for, as it then was, School Certificate and Higher School Certificate. It was mainly a Merchant Navy College, but there was a Royal Navy stream and one took a special naval entrance exam. But at about the age of 16 as a precaution, they gave us all a medical and an eye test, […]
[…]bit between his teeth. I mean that was later, but in Blockbusters I remember having a correspondence that went on for about six weeks, with the Royal Society of Chiropodists who would not have it that chiropody and pedicure meant exactly the same, except that one was Latin and the other was Gr[…]
[…]had no idea at that stage what this was about. What it came down to was I was being interviewed to see if I was suitable to do a film about the Royal Family, which turned out to be quite an epic. I remember Dick was there, Dick Cawston and Peter Bartlett, who was cameraman throughout the whole[…]
