[…]n there. And then we were all put on overtime getting this, this prototype camera together, which was the only one they had to get ready for the ministry, which that was the forerunner of itRoy Fowler  29:27  was the camera wholly original? Or was it based on another camera, the Mitchell o[…]
[…], and even in those days, to get a job as a cinema page boy to start with was just like, just a hard job to get into the cinema in any way, just like trying to get into the print so, fortunate enough, my uncle was a taxi driver and also run a confectionary  shop as well, or his wife did. And ca[…]
[…] got demobbed. Geoff Conway: Yes. Manny Yospa: Did you go abroad?  Geoff Conway: No I didn't go abroad, just training in this country. I was earmarked to go abroad at one time but because of the necessity of people needed for training purposes here I had to stay. So I stayed here[…]
[…] one, and I was put on instrumentsUnknown Speaker  20:54  and some fun out there at Boynton. See that. You see all these ex RAF types being trying to be controlled by,Unknown Speaker  21:02  we've never been strict,Unknown Speaker  21:06  you know, with procedure and th[…]
[…] my education, this was it, Jimmy Verity, bought a sound van for £ 100 and he wanted my father to pay for this van, we were going to go round the countryside making films and he turned that down as well . I'm sure he was quite right because I'm sure Jimmy Verity, may god bless him was a queer as a c[…]
[…]four or five others who had worked with Rosa started a cooperative company called data. It was probably the first cooperative film company in the country. We joined the cooperative Producers Association in Leicester, I believe they were who were very helpful. Lent us a little money to start us off. […]
[…]u, mm, did you spend most of your time then on, on developing really did you?I spent the bulk of my life on the wet side of the, wet side of the industry.In Kay’s? At Kay’s particularly?7And in Tech if you remember?Oh yes.I mean I, I took over. I had a go in other departments but the bulk of my time[…]
[…]was was havingUnknown Speaker  6:32  been in the army from when he was a child, really, until until the end of the 18 war, he became a musketry sergeant in the Royal FusiliersUnknown Speaker  6:44  and and he went back to his job, which was a wholesale news agents, which was Howa[…]
[…]ry Project. The transcript is not verbatim.Interviewer Roy Fowler. Interview Date: 18th August 1988.SIDE 1, TAPE 1Roy Fowler: You've been in this country 50 years now.Robert Beatty: More now, I came over in 1937. I went to Toronto for a year and in 1939 1 got a job understudying Ray Massey and walk […]
[…]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[…]
