[…] - she had a job for life - she was absolutely lovely. The other story Lew Thornburn told was the premiere and I think it was at the Leicester Square Theatre, and they had all seen the film. Lew was assistant accountant earning about fifty bob a week or something like that. There was a camera assist[…]
[…]s Alan before Ian and you were, you know, plunged right in, I mean I was a great film buff, I mean I belonged to film societies and lived at the film theatre and, um - virtually - and made these little things at college and read everything, so I had all that sort of earnestness and interest and thin[…]
[…]e sheet course. That was to write out the story they'd taken. And one of the things we used to put them on, I used to put them into Leicester Square, theatre land and film land, and tell them to write a story on the various theatres. And believe me, I learned more about those theatres in Leicester S[…]
[…]here were new people coming in all the time but AP was grinding down to a standstill.BH: Everything went to Lime Grove. RF: And they were buying theatres too weren't they?JH: The one at Shepherd's BushBH: That's right, and the little one at Fulham.RF: And Riverside at HammersmithBH: Sorry, I wa[…]
[…] was told this a comparatively few years ago at the 50th anniversary. History of the Film Society an event that was set of about at the National Film theatre and Ipswich itself. But I got the local principal singer? put a slide on the screen, appealing for people to support the formation of an Elect[…]
[…], Kay? Did you have any inclination - you sort of drifted into the film business, did you? When, if ever, did you start thinking in terms of films or theatre or anything like that?Kay Mander: I wanted to travel, and my idea was to go all over the world, so I thought being a schoolteacher would be ni[…]
[…]se the facilities of GBI, which were quite good. They had set up a very good at the time modern facilities, particularly in the cutting rooms and the theatre and the recording at Cleveland Street.Stephen Peet 31:14 Did you were you working with sync sound, for instance, down the mine or […]
