[…]ften saw it on the credits: Miss So-and-So’s costumes by So-and-So, didn’t you?Yeah, absolutely. Yes.Anyhow, your first brush with the film industry, going to Denholm, what did that do to you?Well, I thought it was lovely. And one used to see Maggie Furse, who was working with Roger Furse on&nb[…]
[…]Catholic school. Now my mother - I never found out about my mother - what she actually was - my father was Maltese and he came over to this country in the twenties and my mother came from Germany in the twenties. She came over - it was a very sad and bad life actually, my mother, and my […]
[…]n Charge of Production'.   I practically had an erection, it was so totally unbelievable. 'It sounds very interesting,' I said, trying not to leap up in the air. He said, 'I’ll start you off with £10,000 a year' - which was pretty good money then, in the Sixties - 'company[…]
[…]re in the archives and I hope I made the right decisions, but I don’t think I missed any of the real high points. But a more extravagant way of trying to create an archive, I can’t imagine.  So what sort of speed would those tapes go through, these great metal things? Very slowl[…]
[…] did you go and stay with him? You mentioned...Larry Allen: Well my Grandfather, you see he retired from the stage and his sons had moved off to Coventry - that's from Merthyr Tydfil to Coventry - so he went and joined 'em then. So what happened after this winter of despair, you know, with me Dad ou[…]
[…]. And so I realised my god and Brian redhead rang out and said, We liked the piece very much. What are you doing in Cheltenham? And I said, Well, I'm trying to get a job on the guardian. And he said, Well, look, we haven't got anything at the moment. But when we have our right to, but six or eight m[…]
[…]Master at Woolwich, that the unit at the Woolich Academy, which was for gunners, and so that's how he earned his living when he came over to this country. And the, the family was then sort of either army or engineering very weirdly. And all my uncle's were really quite eminent engineers. One was a v[…]
[…]ed do is flick a switch andyou’re on to the optical track. Well of course they didn’t know that, spent ten minutesChristine Collins Page 7Tape 17trying to mend this magnetic track. Anyway, so that was one of the things I remember about that. But a lot of the early programmes were solid music be[…]
[…] except cinema and we actually played truant one day, I think we were in the fourth form as a matter of fact. We chose a day when we had double chemistry because we both hated chemistry and we went up to town on the bus and we had lunch at the Corner House. We'd saved for this form months and months[…]
[…]te until the war; as a child DW would got to the cinema every week; very little of his early life had anything to do with his career in the film industry, when he left the army in 1947 he knew he didn’t want to work in an office; Southern Rail had a small film unit for training under Waterloo which […]
