[…] 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 […]
[…] she took me to lunch, and I spotted one or two big names. She went over to chat to an […]
[…] his directorial debit with The Oracle. This was followed by two b-feature crime films in 1957 and episodes of several […]
[…]down the back of my neck! And he said, "Oh I'm sorry my young sir!" [Chuckles] And anyway I went to this place and I was there as an office boy under two of the biggest bitches I have ever known in my life, who were typists, and they really made my life hell. And after I'd been there about...the man[…]
[…] end of the summer holidays and it laid me flat and I was in the sanatorium for the whole - most of the summer holidays, and that knocked me flat for two years - and so, I won't bore you with the details. So that was the end of my school for...John Legard: That's a long time.Pat Jackson: It's a long[…]
[…] of the summer holidays, and that knocked me flat for two years - and so, I won't bore you with […]
[…] of the summer holidays, and that knocked me flat for two years - and so, I won't bore you with […]
[…] got interested and fell in love with films.p.1John Legard: He doesn't recall what the film was?Teddy Darvas: No, it was some one-reeler or two-reeler [in about 1908]. And when Robert Rush, the BBC producer, that did the programme about Korda, he asked my father to go and tell this story b[…]
[…]own to buy a 6d seat at any morning matinee although it was strictly forbidden to do so because it meant going along a dangerous main road. One early two reeler I saw was called The Farm and to demonstrate how good the sync was he kept throwing this bucket around which made a terrible noise. Actuall[…]
[…] maintenance engineer at the new MGM Borehamwood studios, after about two years he moved back into production as assistant dubbing […]
