[…]st, it was originally called Hepworth's,Roy Fowler: Ah hmm...at Walton?Vernon Sewell: Yes, and it was one of the very early studios. We had two stages I think, then they were converted to sound and er, we were... See, the films being made in those days, they were all quota pictures, a poun[…]
[…]g like 500 carpenters working at Denham. It was organized chaos. There was so much happening that 11 films on the floor, and sometimes you'd set from two pictures in the same stage. And it was handicapped to a certain extent, because I didn't see it. But on St Patrick's Day, stage six caught fire, a[…]
[…]d not happy ones. We, we moved about quite a lot. The reason the reason it got what I mean that I was born in Blackheath was that my sister been born two years before she was born in Cambridge, and my parents married in 19 29. And both sides of those pet sets of parents and my mother and my father t[…]
[…]e - I don't think she knew about my birth - and it was a place called Shoreham in Sussex, where "Bungalow Town" is now. In those days there were only two or three bungalows and mine was a disused railway carriage, and I was born on the beach at Shoreham in a disused railway carriage. That any help, […]
[…]iting on.Peter Tanner: Country subjects because we lived in Sussex, near Grinstead and they were to do with the country seasons. I did do one or two criticisms of local dramatic society's productions.Roy Fowler: Is writing an interest which continued.Peter Tanner: It continued, as wel[…]
[…]n June 5th, 1910, in London. My parents actually came over from Russia, from the Ukraine - this would have been about 1893 and they were about twenty-two years of age and they had two small children. They left Russia, never to return, and came to England with the two small children. After coming to […]
[…], I think a lot of boys in those days, I mean, who were lucky to have that sort of equipment or 8millimetre. That's how my interest started. I've got two sisters, Sarah and Vanessa, who, who one of them still is an actress. And Vanessa is now become a writer and a television presenter, and a brother[…]
[…] now. They got me a job there for a year or so year and a half. And I thought it was okay. But I can't stay here forever. And I did learn. There were two schools of thought in the BBC. One is once you've joined the BBC, you can't possibly move to parliament's you have to leave the BBC and rejoin the[…]
[…] then we'll help you get on a production," which they did. Roy Fowler: Ah hmm, good. So you were a moviegoer, presumably? Andy Worker: Hmm, two or three times a week! [Chuckles] Roy Fowler: Yes. In those days what kind of comparison, as a filmgoer, did you make between the Hollywood f[…]
[…]saw, to get a plane, we had a visa to Britain, which was procured through some business friends of my father to come to England. We arrived in Warsaw two or three days before the war broke out and had a seat on the plane on the Wednesday. My mother had left on Wednesday morning, we couldn't get seat[…]
