[…]nd 2 years intermediate and then you get your NDD so it's a 4 years course. 0:04:29.9 MIKE: So how did you get into the film and television industry? 0:04:32.0 JOY: Well, I didn't want to be directed to education and teachers because that's what they used to do... that's the only only rout[…]
[…]d whether they had anything to do with the business theater film. Yeah, Kent Houston 0:21 My parents were in the film industry previous to the Second World War, and in fact, during the Second World War, because of certain circumstances, they ended up in New Zealand in the […]
[…]ut, I think it was about 17, I realised that I either had to hang on and go straight into the services that I would have had to have done. Or I could try and get my foot in somewhere so that I had some experience so when hopefully it was all over and I came back. SoGlyn Jones 1:55 By the[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]urse don't realise that you get a popular play - like 'The Ghost Train' for instance - would have four or five touring companies, all touring the country. And it was a lot of work was going. And I had, eventually about two and a half years with 'Young Woodley'. And I can remember we never repeated a[…]
[…]ritish International Pictures to buy it, and that was it! So 'Blackmail' became the first talking picture ever made in England, and I was in the industry. I still continued to write plays. I had a very successful play at the Comedy called 'The Last Hour' - that was in '29 - and then later on I had G[…]
[…]r at all?Oh, a lot at school. I mean St Paul’s is a very liberal minded school, but it’s still, youknow, there are still very few Indians in this country and just to jump, I remember some time later when I was wearing a sari – this was after the war and I was in films – andsomebo[…]
[…] remember when I had to go on until I saw somebody on the other side of the stage going like this. I rushed in out of breath – probably a very good entry, but it wasn’t what they wanted.SC: So did you really not have any formal schooling at all?EC: Nothing at all. Oh yes, I did. My Mother had a very[…]
[…]ly at the beginning of the film, about the second day they came to say that she had a rather bad bout of flu and they said, "Would you be prepared to try and stand in for her for the time being?" I said, "I know nothing about continuity, I'd loved to do it, but I don't know it so there's no good me […]
[…]'ve come full circle. I mean I started one of nine Wall Street in the industry. I'm now working at one on one Wall Street just next door. So I seem&nb[…]
