[…]l at Hornsey College of Art for two years, and then came out in drifted a certain amount. Now, in 1960, purely by accident, I fell into the film industry. I had been drinking with a friend of mine who had been at art school, who was by this time and assistant director working at Shepperton. And hekn[…]
[…]ages, run around and just help occasionally. So I was out of work, so I said, "Well I'll do it." So [laughs] I started and I'm still in the film industry!Charles Drazin: So you came into films through politics really?Manny Yospa: Oh yes, but I was interested in films all my life, I mean when ever an[…]
[…]rt of firm did you work for? Lois Singer 1:56 Oh, I worked in a children's hospital for the matron. I worked in industry, obviously, in Birmingham, that's very common. Lois Singer 2:07 I had my first real long term permanent job as a secret[…]
[…] later) for the best single performance. I had played (for my diploma) the friar in Romeo and Juliet, the old friar. Mrs Pargeter in a West Country play by Masefield, called The Tragedy of Man, and she had a strong dialect, and was a nasty old thing. I was summoned into Mr Barnes’ study with t[…]
[…]e?John Aldred: Ryde was my school and I left school at the age of 16 to start work. I had more or less decided that I wanted to go into the film industry because my interest went back a long way even though I was only 16. For instance I can remember my first visit to the cinema in the silent days, a[…]
[…]a week. Anyway, eventually I got myself a job, and it happened to be an Australian called Dennis Connolly - no-one's heard anything about. And he was trying to make a cartoon.Kay Mander: What year would this have been, approximately?Joy Batchelor: '34.Kay Mander: And he was trying to make a cartoon?[…]
[…] the magazine items were we cut through the morning we try and get them up. There's only four minutes still […]
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[…] so the only way you could get them was to try and locate them in the BFI. So, yeah, so […]
