[…]her at his home. The date is the 19 November 1988.The questionnaire asked where were you born and what sort of schooling did you receive and any specialised training, so can you give us a little run down on your early days of where you were born etc and school and so on.PH I was born in an Army[…]
[…] love it! And the other thing that we had on special days was, we used to buy a thing called […]
[…]-up. And I did go on to a film called Esther Waters and it was the introduction of Dirk Bogarde and [John Howard?] he was kind of special effects with Bill Morris and all of that. He was kind of very learned and he had this… who was the famous documenter at that time?PF: John Gri[…]
[…]re working, in the late-70s early-80s? Or was it later than that?CF: Later. If you look at specifics, we were, we were involved in … obviously we had special effects companies, we bought a number of businesses, we were fortunate to be able to do that. But the issues relating to things like special e[…]
[…]d off, it was purely just a guide, you had the 1000s of people standing up and lonomg to create. And you see. And I have to say that I get bored with special effects film because I know it's just money and time and where the special effects of the searches and 40s and 50s were really exciting becaus[…]
[…]d tin mugs - er enamelled mugs, so I used to get a tray and bring these back. It was delicious, I used to love it! And the other thing that we had on special days was, we used to buy a thing called Tikky[?] Snacks.Alan Lawson: Oh yes.David Robson: They cost thruppence each and it was...Alan Lawson: […]
[…]y early in 1950, and he had about 14 months to master the technique of stereoscopic filming and produce the program of films, as well as building the special cinema, the Telekinema, on the South Bank site, which was a quite a unique building. The architect was Wells Coates, and this building had to […]
[…]her. I remember in particular one called The Lady of Shallot. I think it ran for 10 minutes, The Lady of Shallot, one reel in fact, and what was very special. And I remember that it was sold out right? To the current cinema in Notting Hill Gate, which was in existence, even in those days. And it was[…]
[…] I think was either... I think it was [Argos???] at the time) er, a free French Navy fouring[?] captain - um, in a civilian aeroplane, which had been specially brought for the occasion - French civilian aeroplane - to fly to Dakar, land and parley with the Commanding General there. This poor chap wa[…]
[…] and they were finished in 1966. We had two BBC Special Effects guys doing the models. They had time off in […]
