[…] very good or I'd done something wrong, you know, I'd try to find... And I kept that for a long, […]
[…]ter showed pictures in. When I was goingMike Dick 15:21 to your parents have any connection with the, shall we say the entertainment industry? NoneSpeaker 1 15:26 at all? No. My mother was half the age of my father. I think when they married, she was 20. He was around 40. So […]
[…]m the kings of Ireland, so it was like a, I mean, they didn't have a title themselves, either of my parents, my mother, my mother, was more landed gentry from Scotland and Yorkshire background. But my father grew up in a very sort of privileged world where people moved from house to house depending […]
[…]er and applied for money from Channel 4.[0:05:02]And, I know you’ve told us before, not in the interview. What was it that got you into the film industry, film business?It was really, somebody, a friend of mine in, in UCLA, wrote to me and said, ‘Youshould think about applying for the National Film […]
[…]eat Missenden, and it was from Great Missenden that I started in films. I should say that when I left school in 1929 I went into the advertising industry and I was going to be with Mather and Crowther...Roy Fowler: Oh really? E.M. Smedley-Aston: ...which as you know now come over Ogil[…]
[…]ony Mendleson : Where?Linda Wood : Ah hmm.Anthony Mendleson : London.Linda Wood : London, yes. Did your family have any connection with the film industry or...?Anthony Mendleson : No not at all.Linda Wood : Not at all...?Anthony Mendleson : Ah hmm.Linda Wood : And, did you go to the cinema as a chil[…]
[…]roject. It is the 19th of November 1991. We are in Chartridge in Buckinghamshire at the home of Cedric Dawe, an Art Director whose career in the industry goes back to 1932, but we will start at the very beginning. Cedric would you tell us when and where you were born?C. D. From the very beginning, I[…]
[…]e whole business of film criticism which now exists, what as a vice really, every magazine has its film critic whether or not they know anything, all trying to be a journalist, and none of this existed then. And we, Peter and I, and then Gavin whom I brought in to it, whom I knew, we wrote Sequence […]
[…]s. And the other spot. That's right. Yeah.Alf Cooper 19:34 They put me on my trainers becauseJim Gorrie 19:38 we migrated I'm trying to. Well, that's where I met Oliver. And all that lot you say? And so we we went on whale Island, which is the biggest gunnery school in the wo[…]
[…]ns and chippies got paid more, I wouldn't be sure about that.Arthur Graham: Could you give us a run down of your career and progress in the film industry and the positions you held in the film industry.Alan Lawson: While I was at the Bush I did quite a bit of first assistant and then after that I wa[…]