[…]d then had the chance to go to Merton Park Studios where I stayed for just over a year as a clapper loader.Michael Aldridge  2:02  The industry then, the film industry that was, became very difficult in the early '60s and I joined Anglia Television, where I spent nearly a year at Norwich o[…]
[…]So,  starting, I guess at the beginning, you're the daughter of Michael Balcon, who is one of the founding fathers of the British film industry. And I'd like I suppose to start with him, your memories of him going, going  back to your earliest recollections. Is that possible ?&nb[…]
[…]he same as my own experience because I was in the library for eighteen months, you know, a few years before you and I was going through the same hell trying to get in to the cutting rooms and eventually it happened.Yes, yes, yes.And thank God for that, you know, but it took an awful long time.Yes.An[…]
[…]ritish International Pictures to buy it, and that was it! So 'Blackmail' became the first talking picture ever made in England, and I was in the industry. I still continued to write plays. I had a very successful play at the Comedy called 'The Last Hour' - that was in '29 - and then later on I had G[…]
[…] I was anxious to get into motion pictures! My eldest sister had written quite a few original stories for films. At that time the principal film industry was not in Hollywood, but in New Jersey, across the River, the Hudson River, from Manhattan, from New York. And she used to take me on the ferry w[…]
[…]s born 31st of August, midnight actually, 1910, in Kaliningrad, which was called Konigsberg. Right?Yes.That's it.1Right. And you have mixed ancestry you told me?Yes, Russian and, German and Latvian.Right. Could you briefly sketch...?No?The family origin, your father, no? You....No, no. It's not[…]
[…]r at all?Oh, a lot at school. I mean St Paul’s is a very liberal minded school, but it’s still, youknow, there are still very few Indians in this country and just to jump, I remember some time later when I was wearing a sari – this was after the war and I was in films – andsomebo[…]
[…]our engined bomber I was 18. My air RAF career ended finally over Brest when in fact 11 of us went on a daylight raid. Thought is a good idea by ministry because the the sorry, the Americans were doing it successfully and out of the 11 two got back. My wing commander was one armed with the other one[…]
[…]d dumb made a number of pictures. Quite a number. Concerned with the steel industry. A film called Scottish universities of which I had a row with Chris who&nbs[…]
