[…]ny other particular memories of film-going in the First World War?Eddie Dryhurst: No. I used to go quite a lot, every week in fact. Sometimes I would try and get in for nothing if I was short of money. Of course a lot of the time I was taken on as a pianist, in times of illness of the regular person[…]
[…]o local papers, some of which were accepted, some of which were not.Roy Fowler: What sort of subjects were you writing on.Peter Tanner: Country subjects because we lived in Sussex, near Grinstead and they were to do with the country seasons. I did do one or two criticisms of local dramatic[…]
[…]rlyage, about 3 or 4, where I've been ever since for which I'm dulygrateful because if I'd been kept up there I would never have entered thefilm industry.AG: What kind of schooling did you receive?DB: I went to a little private school, a day school in the late 20s andearly 30s, from 7 to 13, 14, I w[…]
[…]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 […]
[…] colour correction adjustment onto the gallery, the thinking being that they would be in charge of the camera setup and so they would best be able to try and match the look of the film bits to the studio content on [unintelligible] that. As film post-production grew we did develop our own […]
[…]lucky. But I was employed by the motion picture training team, to deliver courses on the technical side of film processing, process control and chemistry and all those different areas. So, I tended to specialise on the control side of things, and my colleague, who was a chemical graduate, did the ch[…]
[…]nd went in. And I said, "What's the trouble? Is there something I've done that you don't like?!" And he said, "No, I'm thinking of going to London to try my luck down south." He said, "I've had one or two offers." He'd been touring with a show down there for years before. And he said, "So, I'm going[…]
[…]p;R: But it was changed days there, I mean the cameras took ages to line up and whether it was worth bothering lining them up sometimes and you would try it with a test card that was sort of maybe eight feet by five feet and out in the rain with a huge test card out in the middle of a football field[…]
[…]ccessful applicants. We didn't realise the scale of what we had achieved in terms of that sort of amount of people chasing a job in this amazing industry. But when I got into STV, I kind of quickly realised the people in it were the best and brightest that had been other places like the BBC and had […]
[…]d I thought ‘it's a bit, mmm” I joined it because obviously it's the recognised union, and there was a branch in catering, and the guy who was the pastry chef, a fellow called Dave Smith, he was the Branch Secretary. I was a member, I wasn't involved, but within a year, they had this big - so in the[…]
