[…] and where you were,Speaker 3 0:35 right? I first drew breath just before the outbreak of World War One in June 1914, which means that in two months time, I shall be 74 the place this auspicious event occurred was in a small terrace suburban house in Willesden. At the bottom of our garde[…]
[…]stant. But in fact there were better positioned people, Michael Berkitt was, got in that way, and so did Pevson, Nicholas Pevson's son. They were the two who kind of at the same stage and age got the jobs of assistant assistant assistant at Ealing. And I couldn't get arrested. And I enjoyed act[…]
[…]sp; It was strange because the artist who taught him, they used to project the image of someone on canvas and then paint over that and I can remember two large paintings in my grandfather’s house of his father. I liked that. And so yes, I think we were. My uncle Charlie was a pantomime d[…]
[…]en that first came out, it was a fascinating, fascinating place to work. And what happened, though, is Charlie never liked to own equipment. So after two or three years, basically, of having no social life and earning a lot of money, I thought I really need to buy some equipment and then continue to[…]
[…] this depended on having a beam splitter camera which was made by George Ashworth. The beam splitter camera consisted of a camera in which there were two gates at right angels and in between the gates was a prism and through the prism was passed one image and reflected from the prism was another ima[…]
[…] times 3 John Taylor: Just on the chemistry of the two people or three people concerned. Billy Williams: Yes, I […]
[…]n’t shoot any black and white after I started working in movies. I didn’t shoot a black and white movie. Today I would have loved to have shot one or two.PF: Were there any of those discussions happening, sort of around the time of Privilege because I know there were a number of directors […]
[…];R: No. But television was in its infancy! This would be about, I think we first got a television about 1958/59. STV had been on the go for a year or two years at that time. And I remember we got the television and, gosh, we didn't have an outside aerial. It was an inside aerial and it looked Sputni[…]
[…]y by the efforts of, of, of, were stimulated - public relations officers who saw the chance for their own area to be enhanced by film. And so you had two tendencies, really, two trends, two directions of development. One towards the Shell Film Unit, the other, later, towards Shell-Mex and BP.And in […]
