[…]ery well, beautifully. And the same with First Samuel Hawk, and as you know, a man of great quality. I worked them many years later. To sam you go in south you remember many other films. And you always send me nice letters, which is not very much appreciated. He had a sort of very warm, nice quality[…]
[…] first, where and when were you born?David Prosser: Born Carshalton, Surrey, 2 February 1917 and moved very shortly after that, within four years, to South Wales, Swansea in the Gower peninsula.Alan Lawson: What kind of schooling did you have?David Prosser: Er, a thing that's never heard of nowadays[…]
[…]n't speak very good English. And when in late 1890s, early 1900s, Louis said he was just going out to take the dog for a walk in fact he was going to South Africa to try and earn his fortune. It took us some weeks to realise that a) he never went for a walk anywhere and b) they hadn't got a dog. But[…]
[…]rom America, they gave me a Newman sinckler. And that was the first time I ever operated a camera. And they put me up the top of one of the cranes at Southampton all by myself with the Newman sinckler just to get shots of the Queen Mary coming round into the dark. And I know I was hired by a dark po[…]
[…]y Yorkshireman. Tell me about your origins when and where we were born?Gerald Chambers  0:58  Well, I was born in a small mining village in South Yorkshire called Highland common at number five Elm Street on the 10th of August 1927. My parents were working class in fact, there has been a d[…]
[…]gular focus for an hour and a bit of operating at full time. This cameraman Danny attention came back after the war from the far east had been out in Southeast Asia and none of us and we only knew of him we didn't know him the young people there because he was away at the time when we were joined up[…]
[…]: Right, Philip your name is quite clearly Irish but I suspect in fact if I didn't already know that you are a product socially and geographically of southern England, could you could you begin with that thought and talk about your upbringing and whence you came?Philip Donnellan: Yes the Irish dimen[…]
[…]ggie was always very, really quite nice and respectful, but he wasn’twarmly friendly. I got warmly friendly with him because I bumped into him in the south of France actually, and we went and had dinner, he was there with his wife, he and his, and I was there staying with my brother and sister-in-la[…]
