[…]them, I won't tell the old man about it." [laughs] So I wrote off for a interview, and they wrote back and said, "Yes. Come to Shell Mex House on the Strand." Great big tall building, you know. So I went to this - overshadowed by this huge building, went upstairs to I don't know, the 18th floor, not[…]
[…]any at that time. So, it had a lot of series, likeDisappearing World and, it did do quite a few series, so, I did the Styal series as well, four films in Styal prison. And... I can’t... I think the [inaudible]. And then for the BBC as well, I did quite a few for the BBC.BECTU History Proje[…]
[…]ack with film and edit it in England?Philip Leacock: Yes. And I was - I don't think I was involved when we came back. I had got leave of absence from Strand Films and when I got back Basil Wright and John Taylor asked me to join Realist, so I went to Strand to apologise - and was only to learn that […]
[…]e British Film Commission was financed for its first six months was I went to my bank and on my personal credit they provided the fund. Coutts in the Strand with my guarantee that if they didn’t pay in the end I would pay. I knew of course that they were going to pay in the end.And Coutts knew as we[…]
[…]t was frightening. Of course you know he got killed in a crash eventually. But it was terrifying, this drive down from Wood Green to the Savoy in the Strand, really terrified me.Rodney Giesler: He came over during the War and stayed didn't he?Dicky Leeman: Yes. But he was one of a family, acrobatic,[…]
[…] there and enthusiastic. He then went out to Hollywood and became a great lighting designer in Hollywood.Roy Fowler: Yes, he directed one or two films out there, didn't he?Joan Kemp-Welch: Yes and he died, oh, I suppose about twenty years ago, didn't he?Roy Fowler: I can't remember wh[…]
[…] I'd been writing comic poems for the paper as well for years, two to three years every week. And so he gave me the songs and I took them back to the strand Palo Santo, one dinner night. At night, and I wrote four songs that night, and took them down the next day. And he liked them, bought them. And[…]
[…]ell, that was a lot of money. You could live then for six or eight weeks on that, you know, at my age. And I took a room in the Adelphi, just off The Strand. And I remember I paid half a crown a week for it, and it had nothing in it whatever, not even a chair. And there was some water on the landing[…]
