[…]ortunately, there was an awful a lot of independent cinemas at that time. And one, a lovely man called Richard Schulman who owned the ParisPullman in South Kensington and he said “Yes by all means, I’ll put in on.”[TIME 00.28.19] Because I didn’t want any money, I just wanted it to go on thescr[…]
[…]Y es.Ours was only seventy-five acres his was a really big huge one. And he married, for, there was a newspaper man from, from Texas? No, anyway down south.Y es.He had this summer place and he was a sort of bailiff for that island, Hay Island. And, well he was a nice young man and I thought he was v[…]
[…]d it must be so difficult.SF: No one knows until you’re in it.Anyway what happened. Well, when I went to university I, one of my close mates was a, a South African Jewish woman, daughter of a doctor, who’d special, his special, is special study was African children diseases so he’d taken a huge risk[…]
[…]per: Yes, um - I know the...Johnny Goodman: You know the guy.Alan Sapper: Yes.Johnny Goodman: And I've got the cutting inside, it said, "Went down to Southall and met young twenty-three year old assistant director, Johnny Goodman. An enthusiast for film, the first person that gives this boy a film t[…]
[…] mean, but like all Anouilh stuff, you couldn't take it apart you you couldn't change it yourself. I did actually have a long session with him in the south of France. And I always had I must have invented that I must read my script. And I said, Well, I'll come back in a couple of hours and and he sa[…]
[…]e purposes of the film! Now, also in 1951 there was a very important event in the history of moviemaking, and that was the Festival of Britain's South Bank Exhibition, part of the Festival of Britain in 1951. Now, the planning of the festival from the start had agreed it had to include a movie […]
[…]LPH:Yes, that’s right. And of course I worked there, and then there was a, they had a London firm used to have a, a branch in America – not America, South Africa I meant, where of course there was not enough work to really keep an office open there.00:03:49It would not pay. So, they put that work […]
[…]le, he was the opening manager of the Odeon, Harrogate and the Odeon, Morecombe. He then became the regional manager for SM Associated Cinemas, Southan Morris’s, large, 270 cinema, independent outfit.00:03:54 He was in charge of the potteries and vario[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]e come to Monitor, I will go on to a bit about it. But at that stage I remember her coming back from Johns in the car with her from Johns showing the South Bank of the film he did about the ??????????? engraver the size of France was in gross? And, you know, she was just dismissive always. I can't, […]
