Frances Cockburn

[…]p;that kind of thing. I don't remember the secrets of life and Secrets of  Nature. Yes. Nature. That's right. Yes. Do you remember the these two specials cameraman will supply the material? PercySmith first? Oh, yes. Percy Smith was a minor so slight science. boffins only one man he was able to[…]

Philip Leacock

[…] a house here for quite a long time.Stephen Peet: So which school was that?Philip Leacock: Bedales.Stephen Peet: So, did you do, then, at school, any specialised training, or - put it this way, why did you decide to go into films? Was it at somebody's suggestion, or somebody you met?Philip Leacock: […]

Paul Collard

[…]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[…]

F E (Ernie) Diamond

[…]g outside and the Brothers Band used to collect all the props for the studio work. Your brother the brother did that as a transport. So it was in one special studio or the creative studios. And I was sitting there and they're doing the general stuff and MasterCard and the candidates. Would you win t[…]

Hugh Attwooll

[…]isional headquarters. So off, I travelled. And we Kiirkuk at the time with a big mud hut, cinema. And I went and saw the G 1 They said we have a very special film that we can't allow any of the Iraqis to see. And we've got to do it. coming in in half again, starting at six o'clock in the morning, Ma[…]

Denis Forman

[…]I remember Ronnie being absolutely thunderstruck. Because I was her NumberTwo we thought it terribly important that it shouldn't appear that it was a special relationship so sheused to go out with Philip Mackie a lot to try and disguise what was going on but yes we weremarried and then she went to C[…]

Kay Mander

[…], and I was put into the typing pool, which was a wonderful way to learn to type, because all one did - for some unknown reason, undertakers got very special treatment! [general laughter]Sidney Cole: Perhaps they were anticipating the worst in terms of air-raids!Kay Mander: And there were masses of […]

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[…] posted to Duxford, what they wanted me to do, my special qualifications were that they were running out of pilots […]
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