[…], the film laboratories or the BBC. So that was clearly a very important thing to do. In fact, a lady who turned out to be my mother-in-law, saw in a newspaper, a tiny little thing saying ‘Holiday Relief assistants needed at the BBC’: camera assistants. So I applied. DB: My memory is that the B[…]
[…]station, well, that had just come on … ATV at that time. And Bob Danvers Walker was the official and, of course, he was a famous new reader and news commentator, certainly as far as motion pictures were concerned, he did all the newsreels. I was quite honoured to be with him. Lovel[…]
[…]know. And also working, going on from Hammer, I was going to mention one other time I worked with Bert was with erm, Run a Crooked Mile for Universal Columbia Pictures or Universal Pictures. I should be on there, and the executive producer from America wrote an article for one of the trade[…]
[…]ctor. So, erm, ah…then I did ah….in the open-air theatre I did er…The Winter’s Tale and played Vermillious, and actually got a notice for that in the news chronicle. And er…but I still didn’t really like the idea of acting. Then I went to Shepherd’s Bush, and was interviewed by a fat man who said “h[…]
[…]e, ‘I’ve got a wonderful new job, they’re talking me off this television quiz business’, etc, etc. So I said, ‘Oh, how marvellous, that is good news’, you know. And actually everything worked out alright because then Francis left the Encyclopaedia Britannica and went back to archaeology […]
[…]y different to the mentality that took you into politics.Roy Fowler 20:08 Were they held in better racial regard than they are now with a universally despised?Gerald Chambers 20:14 Oh, I mean, I think I think they were very much more universally acclaimed in those days, as I […]
[…]y for...Bernard Vorhaus: Money for Speed, that's right. I also used him on the following film, The Ghost Camera. I had seen some unusual cutting on a newsreel, was it either British Movietone or um...Sidney Cole: Yes - no, he was Gaumont British.Bernard Vorhaus: Gaumont British that's right. And er […]
