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[…]My hair was flattened with grease, and er…er… they said “well, for the moment, Mr Hitchcock won’t want you until er…erm…later, so you can come on the set and watch. And they did this enormous tracking shot with a crane, which starts on a group of dancers, goes through the dancers, and slowly ends up[…]

[…]e was activity at the studios which had been closed for some years before the war. I found out that Gainsborough who were part of the game on British setup that were based on his LinkedIn. There'd been a bomb at the old his his LinkedIn studios and they had all come to Shepherds Bush. And I remember[…]

[…] 1940. And beforethe had one of the first ever air type version of the Officers Training Corps, which was common at that time. And I had done  a set amount of flying in aircraft of the RAF, and was offered immediate Commission, which I turned down and took me ordinary Turner starting off in the[…]

[…]th a girl and that was would have been right but it was a town girl you see which wasn't all right. There was a school that was at Wellington in Somerset and. I. So that was it was suggested that is I wanted to leave so much but probably wouldn't be a bad idea. So then I went back to Ealing and the […]

[…]photography and filmmaking, when I was thirteen. I think for my bar mitzvah I received two box cameras, two cameras, and started with photography and set up a dark room and started doing printing and developing films and so forth. And I think I bought my first movie camera when I was about seventeen[…]

[…]which was the name then given to what is now Radar, Radio Direction Finding, RDF to the Artillery.So I was sent to a training camp at Watchet in Somerset and it was there that I met John Cox who was also on the same course, though he was a Warrant officer [24.11] and I was just an ordinary Private, […]

[…]vent occurred was in a small terrace suburban house in Willesden. At the bottom of our garden, I can remember a quiet park now gone, and marvelous sunsets. I had a very happy childhood, blighted by the fact my mother was a mild, hard pichonry act. My father was an architect. My he dearly loved my mo[…]

[…] work with...Stephen Peet: Lowenstein. What I was about to ask just now, before we stopped - did he have a commercial company?Philip Leacock: Yes, he set up a company himself and I think somewhere I have a hundred or - he'd pay us all in shares [laughs] in the company, so it looked like quite a lot […]