[…]n 1941, partly I think because Oxford was considered a very safe place to be born at that time, but then I grew up for the rest of the war in the country and did not go back to London with my family until 1946.00.53 The first film I ever saw, strangely enough, was Nanook of the North which I saw qui[…]
[…]r family anything to do with the business?Absolutely nothing at all. My mother told me that her mother-in-law used to sit and recite Robert Burn’s poetry, [Laughter] but it’s the only association I’ve ever had with anything in the theatre at all. Right. And can you remember how the first […]
[…] late father, Leslie Faber - I think it might be opportune to tell you a little bit about him because he was quite a character, certainly in the industry. He had a pretty chequered career before the war. I remember that in my youth we had a couple of cut price cigarette and Sweet shops in Liverpool,[…]
[…]oing upthere one day, it was rather sweet to his office to tell him I’d, I’d got this job atNational Screen Service who were just opening in this country. And I, I ran up and I could hardly, I could hardly talk. I was so excited about this. And I remember JohnCayburn [ph 10:00] who was the owner of […]
[…] was some while before we saw action there...and er, it was, you know, it was quite a bit er before we really started and...But it was purely an infantry brigade. We had no...we had er some jeeps and er some lorries, but no tanks, no nothing at all.Alan Lawson: And how did you get your stuff back?Cy[…]
[…]gown, fluffy slippers and hair all in sort of pieces of linen or paper or something. [Laughter] But I left there and then I got caught up in the Coventry bombing because I was always being sent somewhere or the other and I was always having, having driven ever since I was a child because my father u[…]
[…]sp;10:28 I just missed the new lot. Because that just finished yet. Carol was there for about what couple of weeks? Yeah. In and out of the country. But it was complete. And then he went and made it remade it as the way ahead. Yes. Yes. In a student. Yeah.Alan Lawson 10:50 Yes. Any[…]
[…]ham, and dad being although he had his own business of Wheeler, right, and people weren't paying the bills, because they state the, you know, the country was in flux. Yeah. So dad decided that he'd come over to Birmingham with some of his friends who had already been here as a carpenter. Yeah. And t[…]
[…]ass shed with green wooden steps leading up to the first floor, that I remember very well. I like to claim that I'm third generation in the film industry. The reason for this is that my grandmother was left with six children around about 1910 1911. My grandfather had a business in Hampton. And he di[…]
[…]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[…]
