[…]yway, that was the end of production briefly, but very briefly. All the pictures went, rapidly, into other studios and we kept going in some - one or two lines in British International Pictures. Some at Rock, some at Whitehall I think it was called, wasn't it?Alan Lawson : Yes...Gordon McCallum : J […]
[…] charming and had been detailed to be my guide that day. We spent an hour on the set of Oliver Twist. Then she took me to lunch, and I spotted one or two big names. She went over to chat to an assistant with Powell & Pressburger to arrange a visit to the Red Shoes set. First we went back to the […]
[…]'s employer was seminal gluckstein. In gluckstein, relatives firm Joe Lyons, which he didn't like, and we stayed until he eventually retired at 71 or two. All years from 1990, up to the beginning of the war 99 he was employed on the basis no notice is given or required. You can imagine how he was co[…]
[…]knocking on the windows of the train drivers' to get them there in time to get the train out. So I had very little education really. I went to one or two what in those days, and you'll probably remember, what were called elementary schools, which was the lowest common denominator.And when I was abou[…]
[…]was the sister of the second had no issue and the fourth wife who was my grandmother had one son and four daughters. So my grandfather altogether had two sons and eight daughters and out of those two sons and eight daughters there are two daughters still alive, one in Australia and one in South Afri[…]
[…]fined in those times, and she was all right for the first few years of our lives. But, I mean, I'm one of four siblings. My. Have an older sister and two younger brothers. IMike Dick  5:01  just wanted to find out how your parents had actually met, and given theSpeaker 1  5:05  c[…]
[…]s a surprise.The Mayor of Chicago, who happened to be Irish, it must have been in about 1922, and they put me in an Irish stewpot to be brought in by two chefs, and I was to be put on the table which happened, but they forgot about me and the cabaret was delayed, and there I was nearly suffocating i[…]
[…]that. When I said that I wanted to be a sound recordist they did not even understand what a sound recordist was in those days because there were only two ways of doing it – you either went into broadcasting or gramophone records or films and it was practically unknown for anybody to be interested in[…]
[…]ecial craft BAFTA for spring watch in 2011. I also won the team award. Well, we spring watch one the team award. And I will do is that I think it was two years ago. 2016. Not RTS. But I think pro sound news did a team award we won that for happily, or unhappily. I've not got an individual BAFTA or a[…]
[…]ecame an eminent sculptress. But we got this job with a director, I mean an impresario you could say, who sent out first tours, who was notorious for two things; paying the lowest salary and going after the ladies in his office. I can remember my first interview with him. I was so innocent, you know[…]
