[…]u know, that kind of thing. It really wasn't a good thing. And quite honestly, the best thing that happened to me, I think, was joining the film industry. Next best thing was coming to Hampstead (laughter) which was very relaxed... About colour and religion. 03:57At school did you have many whi[…]
[…]r 2  0:39  No, no, my dad was a policeman, and he was actually in the London Metropolitan Police, and in those days they didn't have a ministry of defense police force, so the Met used to do all the government establishments as well, and he and a lot of other policemen got sent to Plymouth[…]
[…]slightly different process in those days. I had already at this stage, I then went to, to live with my parents in Salsbury. And I had wanted to go to try to get into Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to do the stage management course. But my parents, you know, they just couldn't conceive of me doing any[…]
[…]ered for the Army, in fact, I thinkI was the first person in the Time Life Organization ever to join the Army. And I went overseas,Went with the infantry to Dunkirk and I came back out of Dunkirk and I was commissioned and,having got my commission, I was then posted to Gibraltar. At that time my fat[…]
[…]tay near the ports at first. They stay near the docks or near the East End, which is near the exit route. In case things get a bit hostile in the country they've just entered, they can always take the first ship out nowadays, I suppose they stay near the airport. You're right, yes. So you Joyce[…]
[…]ber 1995. Side one TD: Right Aida, tell us about your family life, where you were born, schooling and how you came into the film industry. AY: Well I was born in the East end of London, my father was a watch maker, watch repairer and my mother was a put upon housewife.&nbs[…]
[…]h! We knew nothing whatever about it, but I knew they wrote a lot about love, and I thought I might learn something in this way. And I enjoyed the poetry. And then suddenly this schoolmistress said: I think you've had enough of that. And she put into my hand Bernard Shaw's 'Intelligent Women's Guide[…]
[…]ish Film Commission, at 70, Baker Street in London, and the interviewee is no less than Miss Erica Masters, a legendary production person in our industry, sadly not living in this country any longer. I have the pleasure of doing the interview, my name is Sydney Samuelson and I am the British Film Co[…]
