[…]ll good, build up a bit of cash, I thought, right, I’ll start again. That Summer I was applying through [inaud] to see what I could pick up and I was trying to do sociology, but I didn’t have a maths O’Level, so I didn’t go to Bristol, I didn’t go to Bangor, and I thought, well look, why don’t I go […]
[…]rge Humphries lab’. And I said ‘what is it?’ and he said ‘an assistant in a laboratory for processing film.NA: So was this connected to the film industry were they processing film publicity stills or?CL: Oh no, no, they were doing they were doing newsreels and feature films for processing/NA: yeah y[…]
[…]n me, so I didn't stick to one thing, although now that I am older I think it probably would have been better if I had stuck to one thing rather than try to do all the things I’ve tried to do, but I was so interested in everything. I think that I was very musical and that helped and I was always mak[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]t of shorthand typing. Away. Can you remember when you started in the film industry. Well yes I can because some it was an accident really in that. I saw&n[…]
[…]So we left the stuff there and we had night watchmen. And eventually we moved away from the site and some six or eight weeks after we moved, the ministry rang up and said, "Do you still need this night watchman?"Alan Lawson: [chuckles]Cyril Pennington-Richards: He'd been turning up for eig[…]
[…]of Scotland in Dumfriesshire in the Parish which hadthe remarkable name of Kirkpatrick Joxta near the Village of Beattock. The house was a biggishcountry scottish house called Craigielands, and I grew up there in a very remote kind of societyenclosed in a family circle. I was taught by my Grandmothe[…]
[…]I learned, I did learn German. Can never master the grammar, no, very well, no.Unknown Speaker 2:31 And then you started in the film industry when,Unknown Speaker 2:37 as in 1930 I started at Gainsborough studios in Islam what made you chuck up first and go there? Or I, I abs[…]
[…]dit in 1935 for The Mystery of the Marie Celeste. She joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service during WWII and subsequently returned to the film industry, working for Rank and Hammer studios among others. Her final film was One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975). SUMMARY: This interview, conducted b[…]
[…] we went out there for a couple of weeks to try and promote the film but, you know, you’re up […]
