[…]never make and actress. Much better for her to become my, my secretary.’ So for two weeks I rushed up and down all the streets after these long legs, try to keep up with Widgey Newman and we sat and watched Charlie Chaplin3 shorts and I made copious notes in a book which I’m sure Widgey Newman never[…]
[…] - much to the sort of annoyance of the various old-time camaeramen like Tubby and Charlie Parnell and Ken Hodges - what’s he doing here? just trying to save me having problems in the cutting room. So I was out there sort of assisting the producers and directing, you know, let’s go into a clo[…]
[…]r home movies or student films. And then from that working on preserving the films themselves, so that’s both photochemical and digital. We still do, try to do, mostly photochemical for most projects. So that’s making new pre-print elements, new prints on 16mm or 35mm and then going on to do digital[…]
[…]ry Project. The transcript is not verbatim.Interviewer Roy Fowler. Interview Date: 18th August 1988.SIDE 1, TAPE 1Roy Fowler: You've been in this country 50 years now.Robert Beatty: More now, I came over in 1937. I went to Toronto for a year and in 1939 1 got a job understudying Ray Massey and walk […]
[…]all my spare pocket money going down and queuing up for the pit or the gods at the Theatre Royal, seeing all the pre-London shows. And I had intended trying to go on to university, but it was very difficult at that time because you’d got all the people leaving the forces, but still, I was having a g[…]
[…] went to Logie Baird's place, John Logie Baird's place, to try to get in there." He said, "How did you […]
[…] requirements and the usual sort of thing. Also they would try and encourage the casting directors to introduce the younger […]
[…]se days, was Dave Robson! He said, "How about this job?" So I said, "Ah, I didn't get it. I went to Logie Baird's place, John Logie Baird's place, to try to get in there." He said, "How did you get on?" I said, "I didn't, I didn't get the job." He said, "Well, what's holding you up? You're going to […]
[…]e been because he died was born. So it must have been somewhere in the Warrington area. I was put on my passport latchworth and I had some difficulty trying to renew the passport in Dhaka when the British Embassy couldn't find a Latchworth. But eventually they got Israel first off. Anyway, my father[…]
[…]ax with the lens, because it was offset. The eyepiece was in the right hand corner, and the lens was lower down on the left hand side. So if you were trying to take a picture at, say, two yards away, well then you kept the head you slightly up and over to the right, to the left the as you looked at […]
