[…]ining team, to deliver courses on the technical side of film processing, process control and chemistry and all those different areas. So, I tended to specialise on the control side of things, and my colleague, who was a chemical graduate, did the chemical side but we had to swap over as well. But th[…]
[…]nderson, who was doing Thunderbirds at the time. The reason she knew him was obviously she’d wanted odd bits of engineering stuff because he ran this special effects company, and he did film, mainly Hammer films at that stage, that sort of stuff and I got a holiday job in his studio, which was, putt[…]
[…] in the Prop Department, making props with Hugh Skillen in the early days for theatre, if there was something to be done – a little book or something special he’d say “Well why don’t you make that?” And I got into art directing that way.DB: Right. Okay. Fred Pusey, his very last job, at Thames Telev[…]
[…]he German from across the road, translating the intertitles live. And he was he and the film were accompanied by a pianist. And this was a very, very special occasion. And then we also have in the town a very well known naval author, Richard Woodman, and and he described in detail the relationship b[…]
[…]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 by getting out.[15:04]SF: Yes.Well, he got out just ahe[…]
[…]hink I've said, 25 shillings a week was it on the note there?Roy Fowler: I think you did yes. Let me ask you about that though. It wasn't easy, especially in the Depression years to get a job in pictures.E.M. Smedley-Aston: No, no, that's quite true. Well I...the first studio I ever went i[…]
[…] I must say, I think it's very important to go to a great school. Because you do make it your friends, sisters, and so forth. And you can do things, especially in a large city, in the evenings on the weekends with people who have complained in boarding schools strikes me as responsible for a great d[…]
[…]ever with the management. But Pat all this time was going, was a member of the, mm, British, mm, Museum Reading Room.Yes.Mm, whatever it is, he had a special ticket.A ticket, yes.HARRY COURCHA 53And he had permission to study works that had been stacked away that no one was supposed to read and that[…]
[…];Yes, right.Joan Kemp-Welch: And I used to go up every day to look for work because in those days you walked around. There were no such thing as special agents, there were only about - there weren't a lot of agents. But, you went in every day and you knocked on the door...Roy Fowler: Of al[…]
[…]n Taylor: And you took part in those.Jimmy Gilbert: Umm, and my mother was obviously very keen whereas the other boys would just do it I was sent for special tuition. If I was playing a leading part I had to go and get lessons, singing lessons, I had to get voices production and movement, in other w[…]
