[…]da Hall-ShawMARTIN SHEFFIELD: Over to you Norman. I’ll ask you a few bits about familyhistory and everything. Was any of your family in the industry at all when you started off?NORMAN J. WARREN: Absolutely no. The only thing is my parents, both of them, particularly my mother, were absolutely j[…]
[…]Catholic school. Now my mother - I never found out about my mother - what she actually was - my father was Maltese and he came over to this country in the twenties and my mother came from Germany in the twenties. She came over - it was a very sad and bad life actually, my mother, and my […]
[…]me as a technician. I was sent to the Royal Signals at Catterick with this lovely status of "Excused Boots". It was a marvellous skive. I did no infantry training. Only technical training. I became a radio mechanic. Then another thing happened there. I was reading voraciously. I used to buy the Peng[…]
[…]ms that took place at the time of 1881 with the assassination of Alexander II. The government more-or-less organised a wave of pogroms across the country and although probably maybe a few hundred, or a little more, people were killed and injured in these pogroms it sent thousands - it meant that tho[…]
[…] time.Yes, she was a union member as well.A great union member.And do you remember her coming round with this advertisement, she said „how about trying for this‟? She said „it‟s a firm called Technicolor‟, and it, do you know funnily enough it didn‟t dawn on me that, that it was Technicolor Fil[…]
[…]or your old man um he told me he ran a coach company.SAMUELSON: Yes. He ran this coach company when I suppose one of the regular crisis that our industry goes through and always has done and I suppose always will and there was a situation that my father analysed, the railways at that time were expen[…]
[…]ught up, for some period, on Parish Relief and my mother eventually, well she had to work, and she laterally - she went out with a pack, you know, to try and sell things. She wanted to be available when wecame from school and so on and that’s how she tried to earn a living. I never remember her[…]
[…] g technical quality. It gave you time to think, to try out new ideas. It didn't pay remarkably well, but […]
[…] think the argument showed that, yes it'll burn if you try very hard, it'll smoulder, but so will steel as […]
[…]ece and Hyde Park, the slotted Shepherd and was transformed into Hyde Park for the filming. And that's when I kind of arrived in the in the film industry. And I met Kat later on is to meet Cal read and work on the third man, mod heavy. I progressed eventually from an office boy into into the cutting[…]
