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[…]when Anne Fleming moved – she had by that time become Head of the Film Department – and she moved to become Deputy Curator at the National Film & Television Archive, and I took the opportunity to apply for and get the job of Head of the Department of Film as it then was, later Film & Televis[…]
[…] was a very staunch Collins house, all right, so And literally, used to have to sit on my dad and my uncles when the Gaelic Games would come onto the television, and de Valera would have been dragged out, blind as he was at that stage, and, stop me if I'm rambling. And so basically, yeah, so we were[…]
[…]t. But Henden Manor was the most lovely house and he very much wanted to buy it, but he also very much wanted to have, as Jill I think once said in a television programme about Ealing, he wanted a little bit of England. And the house was owned by Hudson who was then the Minister of Agriculture, and […]
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[…]strange character, there's a wonderful story about Ventney who was very egotistical. A long time after the war I was in Rome and I was a guest of RAI television people there film department and I told them I'd worked for Ventney and they said that's rather funny because during the war when the Ameri[…]
