[…]he Capitol when he appeared with Harold feelings, music for the millions, I think, or something like that there was the Capitol On this succession of variety and music act, and George Formby came looking a bit punchier than he did in the films earlier, but he was very entertaining. And it went down […]
[…]ght, "Well I'm only gonna kick around, you know, up here doing nothing." So I went down on the train. It was absolutely fantastic...And, with being a correspondent, you got a...you know, you were ranked as...I was ranked as a Major through Colonel, so of course I had a very...lovely cabin, and a vis[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 312[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: (Digital: 2012-09-24)Interview Dates: 1994-01-20 & 1994-03-24Interviewer: John LegardInterviewee: Rodney GieslerJohn Legard: Rodney, tell us who your parents were, and how you started, and how you got inter[…]
Stephen Peet 0:00 This is Alan Izod Izod. I ZO D being interviewed by Steven Peet , the copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. And this is tape one, side one. And the date is June 11. 1998.Where were you born and when ?Alan Izod 0:46 I was &n[…]
This transcript has been produced automatically using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any mis[…]
[…]I also if you have one artist I only need one camera. So we worked out a movement plan with mime which only needed one camera which was still full of variety of pictures.Then I began to think the difficulty of doing new work. It was not producing the kind of results I wanted. I organised a choreogra[…]
[…]oes, Spiegel had them too, the same shoes.I think I know what you mean, yes, yes.Do you know, they had sort of fancy, fancy toes.Weren’t they called ‘correspondents’ shoes’?Y es.Yes.Elizabeth Furse DRAFT. Tape 1 Side B52Yes, correspondents...Co, co-respondents’ shoes.Yes, that's right, they're calle[…]
[…]he stage and accompany the acts. Now there, I tell everybody this, we had a second feature, newsreel, cartoon, organ interlude, feature and an hour’s Variety, good Variety. Poor old Semprini he died recently, I accompanied him, and some lovely singers, all the big noises - Vic Oliver. The old girls […]
