[…]internet.com.Speaker 1 0:00 Okay, my name is Ken Westbury, and I was born on the fifth of January 1927. And my place of birth was Woodley Shepherds Bush, just a few 100 yards from the Television Centre, which wasn't there in those days.Unknown Speaker 0:20 You English,Unknown[…]
[…]s, actually arrive from quite an extraordinary source. I’m thinking of a film that I made with you that came from a small cutting, called ‘Nymphs and Shepherds’. Now that came from a newspaper cutting which was recording the fact that there was going to be a reunion of the Manchester Children’s Choi[…]
[…]e assumed (Time 57:36) in our ego way that everybody knew what we were doing and it was fun. So, when we did this first one at the Shepherds Bush Empire in front of an audience … the audience knew because they were our people but people that didn’t know us were absolutely horrifie[…]
[…]rying. I've never, ever cried at my own films, but I was - I had to get out of the theatre. This was at the Centre, Television Centre - at Shepherd's Bush, Lime Grove. I just couldn't stand what I'd done. I realised how I'd used these people, how I'd manipulated them, how I'd been the puppet-master […]
[…]l smaller places you would have had three people really two or three you. There were three people at the RCA towers at Hammersmith and there were two shepherds or. So you know they would be handling more. It was it was a much greater mental strain I think in those days because. You didn't have the o[…]
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Because then, a whole lot of people... When Gainsborough closed, was it Gainsborough or Shepherd’s Bush or whatever it was closed, a whole lot of people from there came over and took the jobs away from the people at Pinewood. Like,Arthur Alcott came[…]
[…]a very interesting... it wasn’t an interesting job, people rung in and said they needed – it was for the Overseas Service down at Bush House I was then...JPH: European Service.DS: European Service. And people rang up and said I need a quarter of an hour recording time to do somet[…]
[…]ing happened, it never came back again. Finally I said "could I have my film back please?" So I was asked to go down and -- would it to be Shepherd's BushNorman Swallow: Lime GroveLindsay Anderson: Probably Lime Grove, yes it was Lime Grove. So I went down and was introduced to Donald Baverstock who[…]
[…]al Command Performance ever given of any film. It was put on by the Davises, who ran that huge theatre at Croydon, and built the great big Shepherd's Bush place. They had a theatre then called the Marble Arch Pavilion - charming theatre; it was a real "class" theatre, as we used to call it. They put[…]
