[…]s very lucky there because I’d only ever been very average, you know, I don’t think I was ever first in class, I was once second, I was usually about third or fourth but I got, I got firsts in both years of secretarial because I could do the shorthand you see. So that was very lucky when I, I came t[…]
[…]n desert to positions around El Alamein. In other words we were read you know in preparation for the offensive.SPEAKER: F7You know October the twenty third 1942 and I can remember one incident as we went through Cairo in convoy. We were warned not to buy anything or to have anything to do obviously […]
[…] over there?Alan Lawson: Yes.Leonard Harris: Somebody gave me that only the other day...you see what it says on it, it surprised me. It's called 'The Third Eye' Maclean Rogers produced it - directed it, not produced it, directed it - wrote it too. But it says there, "The first television film." Now […]
[…]nbsp;were Gallic in those days. Makers of British mining equipment to pick up a third of the tab each sort of thing and done so it worked out quite happily[…]
[…], who was that for?EB: We did two, a sort of dress rehearsal for the landowners and that, then the Royal Command, and then the children, that was the third one.SC: All the same film.EB: Yes all the same film. Christopher Man, he was the agent, now he came up, I don’t think he was married to Irene Jo[…]
[…], listening back on some of those old films the sync track is quite remarkable. My very first week working at Shepperton, I was put into digs. On the third day my parents turned up to find out how I was getting on. My father said, “what have you been doing today?” I said well I've been on strike bec[…]
[…]ry brief meeting with sandwichesand beer. Each episode, which is, as you know a third of the length of thefilm, had one hours' talk. That's what was so marvello[…]
[…]until 1936 and that was at an ACTT lecture which I gave. I then went to Ealing and I worked on some films they used three cameras and I worked on the third camera as operator. That was on the first two films. Then after that somehow or other Dean decided I was quite a reasonable person to have aroun[…]
[…] would you like to see me. Be in at 9 o'clock in the morning at our offices. I said where are they. My Leicester Sq cinema, just to the right, on the third floor. He provided a car to take me home at that time in the morning. That's how I started and the next day I was office boy. I became a great f[…]
