[…]re or something, do some job and I was just doing the alternates. And eventually, they put me on to decorating Gaumont Dance halls all around the country. And I was raising experiences. It literally was a producible Mason, Herbert Mason, yes, famous name me Well, when the films he gave him to became[…]
[…] of the Weatherby family of the racing people in Yorkshire. He was a member of that family. He was a lieutenant colonel in the auction box light infantry in the first world war. Now I also. Just one little incident I remember about another one and I went back some years ago and I saw an old chap dig[…]
[…]onnections with anybody whoknew anybody in films. So I thought well, I’m going to be called up shortly, can I use this time before being called up to try and get myself some connections in the film industry sothat when I’m discharged I’ll have some connections. And there was an advertisement inthe p[…]
[…]en: Yeah, yeah.Fred Tomlin: And that's why the raft was going up and down, not in synch with the ship, so that the boom was going like this and I was trying to fix the mike into it, but anyway we did do it, so that worked out all right you know. But as I say it was all hard work and heavy humping an[…]
[…]until two in the morning, Sunday mornings, any morning you know. But going back, it was a question of sort of moving with the development of the industry and of the studio, you know. The laboratory of course was always over the back of the studio when the glass studio was there, but that was all kno[…]
[…]bsp;to Keebles College, Oxford, a degree in modern history. Then military service, in the army, Duke of Cornwall'sLight Infantry, I'd never been to Cornwall in my life but that didn't really matter.It was after my demob in&nb[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]y, and it would commend itself to the public, so far as scenes were not staged. So they very rarely were staged, and when they were staged they would try to look as documentary as possible because they were... that that gave them an authenticity without the expenditure of a fortune on film stars who[…]
