[…] of a church not far away from here later. And his idea of education was totally revolutionary. We did all sorts of wonderful things. He taught chemistry and analysis of things was by sight, taste and smell. Perhaps it was smell and taste, I don't know. I remember licking bits of arsenic. Anyway he […]
[…]ber these things.Rodney Giesler : Could you tell me when you were born, and something of your childhood, and then go on to how you came into the industry?L.P. Williams : Well, I was born in 1905, in Slough, where my father was a doctor in practice. Er...He, my father became shortly after that the fi[…]
[…]urice Askew, who was the dubbing mixer there - and a very find dubbing mixer too. [break in recording]... You know, just when you started in the industry, roughly, and where?Maurice Askew: Is it rolling?Jim Shields: Yes we're rolling.Maurice Askew: Oh you've been rolling all along, I didn't know tha[…]
[…] had a very sharp pointer and his brother George, did you know George?Yes, yes, yes.Well, Joe come up the museum to see me one day he said ‘I’ve been trying to trace you’, he said and he’d rung head office so he’d found where I was working. And, you know, we had a drink and a conversation then […]
[…]is paying above Leigh complex or the other side of the road where lines from there. From the National Cash Register and from there into the film industry.[00:03:29.580] - SPEAKER: M4 Is there any family connection at all. None whatsoever not related to any of the various properties in the busin[…]
[…]nearly two years, and I can say that I was an embryo television man. In fact I ran the demonstration studio for about six months, did all my own artistry.Alan Lawson : Soho Square?Peter Birch : No, Long Acre; and then I branched out. I couldn't see any future actually in the disc rotating television[…]
[…]ft Holland?MD: We got out. This is not really relevant. That’s a story in itself.NS: You came home?MD: Well then the War. Touring up and down the country. Seasons in London Headquarters of the company were moved to Burnley in Lancashire.DISC 1 Side 2 Track 2NS: You were in BurnleyMD: Yes well […]
[…] later) for the best single performance.  I had played (for my diploma) the friar in Romeo and Juliet, the old friar. Mrs Pargeter in a West Country play by Masefield, called The Tragedy of Man, and she had a strong dialect, and was a nasty old thing. I was summoned into Mr Barnes’ study with t[…]
[…]e ago, but I do remember wanting to play the piano. We had an old piano down in the basement which was in an old house, and I remember watching them, trying to see them down in the basement. I recovered from that, and at the age of 10 I was getting on very nicely, and I wanted to play the pian[…]
[…] got thousands of pounds worth of equipment round there. It's all old and useless, but he gets hold of old cameras and puts them right again, or he's trying to do that. He's got an old Super Parvo Debrie, you know a thousand foot one. He has a Vinten Everest, and that's how he got me to go up there […]
