[…] I was anxious to get into motion pictures! My eldest sister had written quite a few original stories for films. At that time the principal film industry was not in Hollywood, but in New Jersey, across the River, the Hudson River, from Manhattan, from New York. And she used to take me on the ferry w[…]
[…]buckets at intervals full of water with pieces of blanket hanging down from the roof dipped into the bucket to create the humidity necessary to try to stop static. It didn't seem to make much difference to me because we were always getting reprints for static on the film. It was also a very un[…]
[…] Ed private school in in centrec of New York, which was absolutely stunning. I we had we had an enormous auditorium where the theatre was carpentry there was a swimming pool. And I still have my earliest diary, because a lot of the teachers operated as secretaries. So big scrapbooks as diary w[…]
[…]it in a drawer - and I read it and it said 'he wants to' (I don't know the words) 'he wants to go into films. I don't recommend it as an immoral industry'. Well, I don’t know whether that really set me on the line of wanting to go into films but that's what I made my plan to do. And I had to leave s[…]
[…]itten, S.O.S. by Walter Ellis. I went to see him and he tried to dissuade me like any sensible person in films does. They try and dissuade you unless you're really intent on it You don't try and persuade people to come into the film business. It's better now pe[…]
[…]bsp;to Keebles College, Oxford, a degree in modern history. Then military service, in the army, Duke of Cornwall'sLight Infantry, I'd never been to Cornwall in my life but that didn't really matter.It was after my demob in&nb[…]
[…]buckets at intervals full of water with pieces of blanket hanging down from the roof dipped into the bucket to create the humidity necessary to try to stop static. It didn't seem to make much difference to me because we were always getting reprints for static on the film. It was also a very un[…]
[…]y, and it would commend itself to the public, so far as scenes were not staged. So they very rarely were staged, and when they were staged they would try to look as documentary as possible because they were... that that gave them an authenticity without the expenditure of a fortune on film stars who[…]
[…]st extraordinary thing, my father-in-law to be, as he was then, said to me - he was a very conventional, a very nice man, but a very conventional country doctor, and he said, "Have you thought of going into films?" And I was absolutely staggered at the idea, and even more staggered that he should ha[…]
