[…]well. The family were. And erm I was determined to ignore what he said.NA: good for you. A lesser person probably would’ve given up then especially when someone like Cecil Beaton says no there’s no room for you go away. Most people would stop I think . Yes it’s good.CL: I met him a[…]
[…]I was brought up in High Wycombe. My father was very keen on film. And, in fact, until my teenage years, we didn't have a television bird to mark any special occasion like a birthday or Christmas. We'd have a children's party and he bring out that bill in the House 640 projector, dim the lights, clo[…]
[…]films for sending overseas, there was a British Council publicity, I think acquiring films, that's the thing. [00:19:12] Acquiring and I suppose special versions of them were sent, my job was still various kind of assistant office jobs. [00:19:23] One interesting young chap who was there w[…]
[…]t seen these films.John Legard: Yeah, right. And because, presumably the outlets were not only in the cinemas but, I mean, obviously some of the more specialised ones, they were probably... did you have your own distribution, sort of internal screenings, private screenings and so on?Pat Jackson: Wel[…]
[…] there was a Royal Navy stream and one took a special naval entrance exam. But at about the age of […]
[…] days - onto the gun platform and the Convoy made special movements so that we could fire it and gave […]
[…] days - onto the gun platform and the Convoy made special movements so that we could fire it and gave […]
[…] you can go and do it. And it'll be cheaper, basically, and it was quite it were very innovative, I must admit and told me how it was the head of the special effects department at MGM, and MGM had its own laboratory. So we were very much an in house sort of setup, which was perfect, you know, absolu[…]
[…]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[…]
