[…]rsity on John Grierson and the National Film Board of Canada, and Edgar couldn't go because he was going off for the British Council somewhere in the South of France, so we did a joint paper and I gave it and I’ve got the book next door, they published the book with all our talk. Then we had discuss[…]
[…] me that there was a bit unit coming in from South Africa - not South Africa that was banned - […]
[…] was going off for the British Council somewhere in the South of France, so we did a joint paper and […]
[…]nd of course, nobody else would do it. And so they sent the most junior member and I went for nearly two years to live in, in Aden. In in what is now South Yemen, and shot 16 mil. Then it was I earned Amiga reputation as a one man outfit. And I was sent to the Antarctic with the transcend a Commonwe[…]
[…] then follow it through? good many years So have you got over to Graham.Graham Smart 1:35 When I was born in what was then the borough of Southgate in 1938, the ninth of may 1938. And I lived in Southgate, then for a great many years going to school at a school called Arners? School, whi[…]
[…]Beaconsfield was it?Philip Leacock: Beaconsfield. No, no, we didn't shoot at Beaconsfield, we were at somewhere near Uxbridge, no. One of the small - Southall?Additional speaker (unidentified): Southall.Philip Leacock: Yes, shot it at Southall.Stephen Peet: But it's about a mining disaster, it can't[…]
[…] while and then they decided to send me out to South East Asia and the only way of getting out […]
[…]were appointed to the army, fairly early I think.John Turner: I'm not sure. Not at first I don't think.Alan Lawson: Anyway, I was sent to Chatham and Southend and Scarborough, to try and get enemy planes being brought down. It was a pretty hopeless job actually; I used to sit up overlooking Chatham […]
[…]r as a child actor in 1937. He said, I didn't eat for years. He said Nana went, I went to Republic pictures. And they gave me a job. Click Go down to South America. And the producer said to me, I don't care what you get. But all I want is tickets, tickets tickets. He said I went down to sir. And I s[…]
[…]ying that I was finishing work and Alex said 'Well, he can come on as second assistant on "Cry, The Beloved Country" and Zoltan Korda was shooting in South Africa. It was the first sort of anti apartheid film. Alan Paton's book, in fact, I have got part of the script that Alan Paton gave me signed b[…]
