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[…]r family anything to do with the business?Absolutely nothing at all. My mother told me that her mother-in-law used to sit and recite Robert Burn’s poetry, [Laughter] but it’s the only association I’ve ever had with anything in the theatre at all.  Right. And can you remember how the first […]

[…] right. But can I just say that to start as it were in the middle, as I think you know, he was knighted in 1947 for services to the British film industry during the war. He was also a Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olaf, Norway, which he and Charlie Frend acquired I think because of the "Ret[…]

[…]oing upthere one day, it was rather sweet to his office to tell him I’d, I’d got this job atNational Screen Service who were just opening in this country. And I, I ran up and I could hardly, I could hardly talk. I was so excited about this. And I remember JohnCayburn [ph 10:00] who was the owner of […]

[…]n have printing machines in those days!John Legard: Right...Peggy Gick: So everything I drew, I had to take a tracing of to keep for reference. I was trying to get...I remember one time...I was trying to get a big set out and I had the carpenters and the plasterers and everybody coming up saying, "w[…]

[…] Hickey: Well, it all started on 29th July 1914, I think I helped to start the First World War off! I was born and my mother, at the time, in the country, where there was no money. And she decided after a while that the best thing she could do was to come to England and get a job and sort me out aft[…]

[…]l at Hornsey College of Art for two years, and then came out in drifted a certain amount. Now, in 1960, purely by accident, I fell into the film industry. I had been drinking with a friend of mine who had been at art school, who was by this time and assistant director working at Shepperton. And hekn[…]

[…]rst film I worked on was a film called Stonehenge, which subsequently went to schools were sold to schools. And I remember holding a photo floods up, trying to make the model look lifelike with the sun moving around, so I had to move it around in the way that the sun moves around. So you could see t[…]

[…]of birth 4 July ...Vernon Sewell: 1903.Roy Fowler: Nineteen hundred and three right, OK. We're going to concentrate mostly on the film industry, but it would be interesting to know family background to some extent, where and when you entered this life, your parentage and such like - educat[…]