[…]r my interview wearing a hat [pause and laughter] because those were the days in which you wore hats for these interviewsNorman Swallow: For the BBC especially? Julia Cave: For the BBC especially?Alan Lawson: Do you remember who you saw?Julia Cave: I don’t remember but I remember it was somewhe[…]
[…] doing Korea. So he was just doing a little Christmas Special. So I took Bill round. He went back. As […]
[…] tired out there, keep on, same thing, you know...Soldiers looking here and, eating and all that kind of...Um...Yes, they were very informative, and especially Cecil McGivern ...Alan Lawson: Oh yes...?Cyril Page: ...who was the Controller at that time. He was excellent, because he used to ring my wi[…]
[…]raham: This was the type of school which took you onto matriculation.Alan Lawson: Yes, which I didn't get actually.Arthur Graham: Did you receive any specialised training, did you go to technical college.Alan Lawson: The only specialised training I had was I had aspirations of being a kind of Bobby […]
[…]aurice Carter: He used to come in and supervise when we needed a Schufftan shot, theywere a separate company, which we employed to come in and do the special-effects.There was a little German chap he used pattern employ, I've forgotten his name now, buthe supervised the work on the mirror. For insta[…]
[…]chman. Yes, that’s right. What do you remember of those marvelous Two Cities films of the middle war to just after the war, Del Guidice, especially. He was a very colourful character?HARRY MILLER: Actually he had been interned and he was released, right? Now the Two Cities’ […]
[…] that was fine. Then Dave was sent out to do special sequences for the forthcoming Bur ma Victory and I […]
[…] are a little bit difficult to deal with. But one of the interesting things about a rostrum camera is that it can be used as a very primitive kind of special effects device. And I'm not sure of the reasons for it, but Terry and I got on very well together. And it may be that we're both strangers in […]
[…]d soon after this they decided that they would move up to Bangor in north Wales because Bristol was obviously far too hot. I wasn't on the celebrated special train that went up from Bristol to Bangor which had bird cages and everybody's luggage and everything, all light entertainment people. I'd gon[…]
[…]It was quite hard, but then John P would say anything would be hard for me. But it was, but I must go by my sisters because they, I mean Sheila [ph] especially, the one next to the eldest, she’s always been intelligent and she has been scholarly, and Hazel was too, and they found it quite […]
