[…]g on, so the Strand Cinema job came open for me, but whilst the girls were there, I used to play for the children’s matinee on Saturday mornings for 2twoand sixpence.SC: Was that for 3 hours?EB: Yes, it was so noisy that I didn’t play; even a full organ couldn’t be heard, so I let them get on with i[…]
[…]rly days in the film industry stayed. I was Arthur Grant's assistant focus puller, and operator for nearly 25 years. Having done 20 odd Hammer Films, two Val Guest pictures and numerous Children’s Film Foundation pictures. And other things and he was very, very, kind to me and very good to me. Wheth[…]
[…]assistant for some months. But having shot Hadrian's Wall with a 16 millimetre camera, I was able to shoot as well. So a job turned up which involved two years in Aden in the desert, covering an industrial project, and of course, nobody else would do it. And so they sent the most junior member and I[…]
[…]ference between 100 hours a week. I wouldn't have wanted to be doing anything else at all.My father at that time bought me my first little motorcar a two seater at a minimum of 1927 seven. In fact, it was a kind of coincidence what got you involved in design and Don't ask, Ah, yes,it was tonight wit[…]
[…]ould be, what? 1918, yes, well, well, ISpeaker 1  3:21  would say I'd left at 14, but in those days, there was a day continuation school at two days a week, which you had to attend, you know. And so I really finished school at 15. That's when I started my apprenticeship. Like this would be[…]
[…]lier days because they both came from Leeds, though Dad was from Manchester. He got the job as trainee Salesman at Liverpool branch and he won one or two awards for being good at sales - he did the north Wales area - and after that he was promoted to sales manager of the Liverpool branch and in 1948[…]
[…]om the middle of the 19th century to the early 20th century, there was 60,000 people in Buenos Aires who spoke English at home, there was a kind of network of private schools that we all went to and country clubs in which we entertained ourselves at the weekend. And, and it was very mercantile commu[…]
[…]ll those kinds of films. And dad new Lady Youell And through him, I got an introduction to Rock studios in 1943 44 this was And I was taken off for a two year apprenticeship at Rock studios. It was six months, sound six months, camera, six months editing six months in production. And at the end of t[…]
[…] opening the window in the bedroom, in which they slept and I as a baby with the role of a Zeppelin going overhead, that must mean I was no more than two years old at the time, your birth you was 1916, right? Which may or may not be surprising that a child should remember so much. And about that tim[…]
