[…]rk with the labs at that point? With Humphreys or any of the other smaller …PS: I worked with Humphreys on smaller films, from the very outset with It Happened Here, that was processed at Humphreys. They had very dedicated and knowledgeable technicians there. But my contact with the […]
[…]ewood Interviewer: Norman Swallow No of tapes : 4Duration: 04:45:31NB: The time codes given here are estimates based on readings from the original cassette recording.Tape 1 Side 1The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Yvonne Littlewood, television producer. Interview[…]
[…]eatre decided they couldn’t afford shows and they used to bring these bands, American bands over, Ted Kid Lewis. And all it meant was that the set was a band and they could still sell seats. That’s when I decided to move out with Julian Wylie’s shows and I was stage manager and assista[…]
[…] you went up and of course, the thing was to set it nicely on the page, and the page seemed […]
[…] it that’s what seems to be what clings in my memory. I’ve got a very hazy recollection of that kind of foliage I think it was a planter’s movie set in Asia. I don’t know what there is to tell about that, one’s life in those days was largely governed by what was going on with the war[…]
[…]d classical 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 you know through the school, actually, I was sort of inclined as well towards the science side. I used to make little radio sets in the garden shed at home, you know, with accumulators, the old fashioned accumulators and crystal sets and God knows ... John P. Hamilton&[…]
[…]t, in colour again, and Carmen had her staff, there was Ernie Archer, John Box, Jack Stevens and me. And Carmen had already got an Oscar for… she was set decorator I think, on one of the ones with Laurence Olivier at Denham before the war, but they only used to get a little plaque. And subsequently […]
[…]al. But anyway he thought that he would play a trump card and he bought a rented a small hundred acre farm nearby to give to me. I don't think I ever set foot on it actually or even went near it because I was so outraged about the whole idea and kept on going cycling over on Sundays to see John. But[…]
[…] I'd worked with on films at Pinewood. He was a set designer. So he said, "What are you doing here Dicky?" […]
[…]ded soldiers that had been encamped somewhere near Gravesend, singing songs like 'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles' and things like that. And I was very upset at the time because I was the only boy in the school, in this dance school, and when we arrived to do the show, I was being dressed and I was horr[…]
