[…]ly at the beginning of the film, about the second day they came to say that she had a rather bad bout of flu and they said, "Would you be prepared to try and stand in for her for the time being?" I said, "I know nothing about continuity, I'd loved to do it, but I don't know it so there's no good me […]
[…]ing is vested in the ACTT History Project SIDE 1, TAPE 1 Alan Lawson: First of all when and where were you born Johnny Speight: Canning Town, and I'm trying to keep my age secret. The trouble is they've put me in Who's Who and they've got the correct age, so I have to lie about it now because in our[…]
[…]it in a drawer - and I read it and it said 'he wants to' (I don't know the words) 'he wants to go into films. I don't recommend it as an immoral industry'. Well, I don’t know whether that really set me on the line of wanting to go into films but that's what I made my plan to do. And I had to leave s[…]
[…]l, because I’d been an instructor and I’d done the advanced instructors course and all that, they then said to me there was a vacancy at the Air Ministry for a Staff Officer to help wind up the Empire Air Training Scheme – this was virtually towards the end of the European War, and so I was posted t[…]
[…]itten, S.O.S. by Walter Ellis.   I went to see him and he tried to dissuade me like any sensible person in films does.  They try and dissuade you unless you're really intent on it  You don't try and persuade people to come into the film business. It's better now pe[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]e Army he moved to Canterbury I believe – obviously I don’t remember that – the first thing I remember was when he was made the vicar of a little country parish in Kent near Edenbridge and we lived there until he was taken very ill and he died after a very long illness. He had consumption. He died w[…]
[…]mm but not a professionally.KGY: It was reversal.CC: Yes. That's how it all started As you know there was no formal way of getting into the film industry then. There were no photographic schools or schools for the cinema as there are now. It was finding some way of starting, finding someone who woul[…]
[…]armichaels are certainly Ian's family, and the Greenwoods are also tied up in some way with the Greenwoods that one comes up against in the film industry. We wrote on slates, and we learnt to read and all the rest - we learnt a little bit of French, and when I was seven my father was transferred to […]
