[…]ctionists, David Bain, would become a staunch personal friend and will make several unanticipated “Guest Appearances” during this saga. .CHAPTER TWO - THE ODEON YEARS 1968 - 1971 Part 1In the summer of 1968 I had been successful in my application to join as a management trainee with the R[…]
[…]on movies. So, I was able to stay. I mean as soon as I was there, people started offering me jobs there, and I never came back, I never came back for two years.
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In the meantime, Douglas, who I was by then divorced from but we were always good friends, said to me, ‘You must do up the hous[…]
[…]916, I ought to say that he was by that time a Second Lieutenant in the South Staffs, and they married.Now soon after they got married she discovered two things: one was that he was an Irishman and two that he came from a working class family in Staffordshire neither of which facts had evidently obt[…]
[…] mother came from Strasbourg, so it's quite international setup, mother being half French, half German, because Strasbourg always changed hands every two or three times in 100 years, depending who was on the father side, Viennese, which is the musical side with part family, and they lived in Vienna […]
[…]. I always used to think as a child “Well that’s not very good coming fifth, if you come first in England. ...”However, when you realise that perhaps two thousand young accountants take that exam I suppose to come fifth was quite good. So he must have been pretty brainy. His other brother Laurie Wyl[…]
[…]hich was in existence, even in those days. And it was sold out right for 70 pounds. My father photographed it directed it, and with the aid of one or two colleagues built the sets. And that was really the beginning. Roy Fowler 6:49 Do he sell all the rights in it? Ron[…]
[…]my friend was Henry bezel, ah bezel. And after we've I received the photographic equipment from my uncle. I got very interested in photography. I had two lovely Kodak cameras. I wish I had them now. And also, we used to convert the old Kathy, wooden box camera into a projector. And we actually proje[…]
[…]n, by the way. My schooling was a Catholic Church school, we were Catholics our family were Catholic. In Macklin Street, I went to one or two other little schools you know, but the school I remember most was the last school I went to and that was Macklin Street Catholic Church, off Drury[…]
[…]on sides four to seven. DS.Please Note: Dennis Main Wilson’s interview is not strictly chronological and contains strong views on politics, World War Two and – of course – comedy and light entertainment.Dennis Main Wilson Side 1Alan Lawson 0:00 The copyright of this recording is vested i[…]
[…]the studio and then I suppose about ten and introduced Mr. at mass Miss Adelaide Pentecost who ran the film library or indeed I had a job but I think two pounds five a week or something like that is actually two pounds a week plus ten and six more bonus.SPEAKER: M4That was it because I remember I st[…]
