[…] And to my amazement I got her letter back with the BBC heading and it was the BBC at that time were erecting low power transmitters all over the country which in the event of any craft coming over labour they went through as they were into it and then came back down again. And the engineer in charg[…]
[…]bout it, I don't think. You know. there isn't er...Jim Shields: There isn't any humour now.Bill Welch: I mean - I don't for example, this is what I'm trying to say - you take the rock and roll business. Now as long as I bloody live I should never think and never be - They'll never prove to my mind t[…]
[…]und and how you came to be in the business. Barry Quinton: My family background basically is that my mother and father were not in the industry at all. My mother's brother met his future wife whilst working at the Leicester Square Theatre, which today is the Odeon West End, in the mid[…]
[…] grandmother!And er,.. so she suddenly thought all her frustrated ambitions could suddenly be realised with this younger son, who was always doing poetry things and getting little prizes, and things. So she sort-of said to me, “Right, I am sending you to Italia Conti’s stage school on Wednesday nigh[…]
[…]in London and England away from all the horrors’, you know. I didn’t have imagination enough to realise what it must have been like to leave your country, leave everything behind you, and I said to Dr Wolff, who was extremely distinguished in his field, he had his own programmes in Germany and all t[…]
[…]t, when you take it on as a profession, perhaps, you’re just concentrating on the words. Later, when I was in South Africa at school, I used to do poetry and elocution lessons, and we used to then have to speak poetry in public for exams, and I began to enjoy doing that because I loved the words. It[…]
[…]was fitted for a bodice to give her a waist; JR felt that the cameraman’s opinion on her work was most valuable; her role as a woman in the film industry; after The Entertainer JR began painting seriously again; John Osborne left JR for Penelope Gilliatt; JR continues to talk about her relationship […]
[…], which was being made at Twickenham studios. And so that was my first sort of out into into the you explain what it did, being edited? Does? I could try. It's when the picture is finished, when, when the editing is picture editing is finished. It's the track. In those days was film. It would be giv[…]
[…] it today, let alone walk home alone in the blackouts with a total stranger, but my friend met a Polish gentleman that worked in the Polish film industry who knew Kleeman at Gainsborough Studios, who was the studio manager. So cutting a long story short, even before I got demobbed, I got an introduc[…]
