[…]rly days of New Zealand's colonisation. My father's mother's people went out to New Zealand in 1842, from Scotland, from Ayrshire, and settled in the south, and settled finally in the South Island of New Zealand where the Scottish settlements were. But they preceded the official Scottish settlement […]
[…]ngs and... But I couldn't type fast or anything like that at all, nor could I do shorthand. I went to evening class to learn shorthand at Pitman's in Southampton Row, but that was terrible, I didn't persist with that.Third Person: That's where I first met you then! I went to night school at Pitman's[…]
[…] bear doing a specific action. There were some bears in South America and the producer did a deal with the […]
[…] Saville including Dark Journey (1937), Action for Slander (1937), and South Riding (1938), and for Eric Pommer in St Martin’s […]
[…]bsequent to that, was acquiring, you know, brands like Virgin, Primesight, that didn't really have much of a presence in Scotland, largely based down south and, to my point, they just didn't really, they didn't sit well with the core, I viewed, with the core of the business here in Scotland. I:[…]
[…]t’s sort of home in a few days. Well there are certain places I perhaps I don’t choose to live in. One country I certainly didn’t want to live in was South Africa.No.And I genuinely just didn’t like it.Did you ever work in South Africa?Yes I’d been down there on a film I was there on ‘Zulu Dawn’…Ah.[…]
[…]orking for Alex [Alexander Korda], so I went and joined them and I cut their four pictures... Dark Journey, Storm in a Teacup, Action for Slander and South Riding. I still think South Riding was one of the very best scripts every written, it was a marvellous script by Ian. And um...things were a lit[…]
[…]your memories of that particular film, because it was a high budget, using up sterling presumably.Robert Beatty: We had a bit of location down at the south of France. I remember sitting in the makeup room with Greg and he'd just bought himself a book, and I said what do you have there Greg, he[…]
[…] Living' with David Farrar, who lives very near me in South Africa. I saw him last week. And then I […]
[…] he was blonde. He was of German origin, origin. [OI] South African. Wasn’t he South African? Now when was this? […]
