[…] 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 […]
[…]f ambition to be in those days? Pamela Mann-Francis 2:10 I don't, I certainly didn't have any ambitions for the film [industry]. I was a great film fan. I mean, I was, as we were. I mean, we went to the cinema every week, and sometimes twice a week, sometimes three times. […]
[…]at I wanted to do.So I left school and I was more than ever determined that this was at what I wanted to do, but as you probably knew, there was no entry, you had to break your way in, or scrounge your way in or know somebody. And I knew nobody at the time. Suddenly a couple of elderly ladies who ha[…]
[…]nd ourselves out in the Atlantic wondering where on earth we were going as we appeared to be going to America, but it turned out eventually they were trying to avoid the U-boats which meant going right out into the Atlantic and then coming up quietly to Gibraltar after two weeks.Two weeks?Yes. In wh[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]d dumb made a number of pictures. Quite a number. Concerned with the steel industry. A film called Scottish universities of which I had a row with Chris who&nbs[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]n there. And then we were all put on overtime getting this, this prototype camera together, which was the only one they had to get ready for the ministry, which that was the forerunner of itRoy Fowler 29:27 was the camera wholly original? Or was it based on another camera, the Mitchell o[…]
[…]e love of it.Speaker 2 9:02 But were southern region based making films, when, when British Transport?Speaker 1 9:12 I'm just trying to think Erwin, what can join us when ISpeaker 2 9:15 joined British Transport films on april 1951 and what can was there then, I m[…]
[…]nal in that way. And he'd recently died. But he was exceptional, the other man that was humorous, gregarious and invited me to his cottage in the country for the weekend. Because I had nothing to do nothing to do and too immature a virgin and had no girlfriend. He invited me to his cottage at the in[…]
