[…]oad to the studios and the canteen and I there. What I did find, although I enjoyed my work, I did find the fact that I had to do the call sheet very trying, because they were out on location with come on George. Naturally, they didn't get back till about eight o'clock at night, because it was doubl[…]
[…]aker 2:52 and purely from amateur work. You know,Unknown Speaker 2:56 when did, when was? When did you start then in the industry, 1932 I so I see you quite old, really. Well, I was,Unknown Speaker 3:10 I was a clapper man. I think you are the clapper boy.Unknown […]
[…]ceive any specialised training - technical college, poly?Tubby Englander: No, no way, no.Arthur Graham: What made you decide to go into the film industry?Tubby Englander: The fact that the year was 1931 and I had to get a job. I'd just left school and I wasn't going to go back to school again, in fa[…]
[…] to go to work at Pathé Frères? 00:01:09ADOLPH:Well when I left school I, I was uh, um liking about the ci-, I liked the cinema [???] but I’ll try to [???], but fortunately one of the, my father’s [coughs] colleague was a re-, relation to the di-, to the director of the, the Pathé factory in […]
[…] official access. Crews working for the other companies would therefore try to “pinch pictures” as best they could, through bribery […]
[…] trying to be original rule the airwaves. We used to try and make documentaries that we would enjoy watching ourselves; […]
[…]nough, so went and did the fastest secretarial course I could, which was 30 weeks in London. And then thought I would like to go back to the West Country, where my family were, but my father suggested I apply to the BBC in London. I thought of applying to independent television that was just startin[…]
[…]t out of anywhere, is lying in my pram looking up at the trees. My granny I think was the one to wheel me through Ashdown forest, Winnie the Pooh country. And I remember lying in my pram and just watching the fluttering of the leaves. And I am fascinated by that, to this day, as I was as a baby. And[…]
[…]esn't didn't exist in those days. That was a Victorian invention after the railways but so if you can imagine this very much farming open farming countryside, North Somerset, say my family, the earliest we can get back to was written records and 1610. And we have a continuous record. They were farme[…]
