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[…]armichaels are certainly Ian's family, and the Greenwoods are also tied up in some way with the Greenwoods that one comes up against in the film industry. We wrote on slates, and we learnt to read and all the rest - we learnt a little bit of French, and when I was seven my father was transferred to […]
[…] owned the houses let alone they were empty. We would try and get hold of houses as they were being […]
[…]ect, the partition factor is very deeply because our families are divided as well, some of whom stayed in India, and some of whom went to the new country called Pakistan, which none of us knew, because they're in different parts of the subcontinent in the Punjab, which I'm totally unfamiliar with. S[…]
[…] who was the, at that point, the Big Chief, so to speak in children's films. KM: British Instructional? MO: children's story films, and Paul had been trying to get her to give him, or to work with him, on I don't quite know what the idea was, but he had. So I was put through to Paul as Mary Fields. […]
[…]w, I know.Because I can read that as it stands very lively.SF: Yes, yes.I can’t read about my own political past, my own mental...SF: In your own country.No.SF: No.I don’t know anything about it.SF: Absolutely true.21Name of interviewee Susan Crockford DRAFT Tape 1 Side AAnd in some of the like land[…]
[…]he same as my own experience because I was in the library for eighteen months, you know, a few years before you and I was going through the same hell trying to get in to the cutting rooms and eventually it happened.Yes, yes, yes.And thank God for that, you know, but it took an awful long time.Yes.An[…]
[…]lin days where they were just where they met. And Eddie had a feet, three foot out three sisters and two brothers. And they were all in the film industry as well. They all worked either as actresses for the most part, also, the youngest was a child star. And then when the industry when he got to an […]
[…]led forgotten faces. And it was about the uprising against the against Russia in Budapest, I think, in the 1950s was the first of the of those people trying to break away from the Soviet bloc. And it was about the Soviet repression of that uprising. It was a very moving and very realistic portrayal.[…]
[…] right. But can I just say that to start as it were in the middle, as I think you know, he was knighted in 1947 for services to the British film industry during the war. He was also a Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olaf, Norway, which he and Charlie Frend acquired I think because of the "Ret[…]
