[…] because I had an impeccable standard southern English accent and that was the accent I remember in my father who by becoming an officer in the First World War had adopted the conventional Officer's Mess accent. Now if I look back on it and think how that it would have been advisable given my politi[…]
[…]that number one, my father, his my grandfather, became naturalized, 19 on 100 Oh, six in this country. My father was interned in the during the First World War as a British subject in rule Leyden outside Berlin for four and a half years. He was, that time, connected with the cure, not line in Berlin[…]
[…]rst cataloguing job at IWM was a sort of last hurrah for this kind of technology and I spent months analysing a British propaganda film on the Second World War, called Tunisian Victory, shot by shot. So for every shot even if it was only a couple of feet long, you’d have to write down a sequence num[…]
[…]ney release of GREYFRIARS BOBBY, which had been on the Playhouse’s split, he had used his position as a town councillor to coerce Disney to stage the World Premiere at his Caley Cinema. The trick having worked then probably had emboldened MacLauchlan to do the same dirty on the Odeon just after I st[…]
[…]cinema in Baker Street at that time. Latterly we had screenings at Britannic House (BP). Most units knew each other. The Transport lot knew Shell and World Wide.John Legard: It was quite a big club.Rodney Giesler: Indeed. We used to meet at the Highlander, now called the Nellie Dean. I was telling S[…]
[…] transmitter opened and we did a special film arranged for the Midlands, to greet the Midlands as Sutton Coldfield opened. Now this was a small world, the newsreel world, Dick Cawston, unquestionably, was the most important influence there.I:   What was his official title at th[…]
[…]rything. And then the war started. Well, I knew I remember the ticker tape 1939 about the Germans had crossed the Polish border, and you suddenly the world seemed to stop. You thought it was all going to be like 19 1418, over again, because that's the only war you knew about. And of course, it wasn'[…]
[…]nfrequent 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 i[…]
[…]e got through Cambridge, aB.A. at Cambridge without ever passing a single exam. What a lesson to them all.Taylor/Peet: How conscious were you of' the world outside Cambridge?Denis Forman: I was conscious, much more than most of them. I was conscious of world politicsin the sense of Central European […]
[…] couldn't find a Latchworth. But eventually they got Israel first off. Anyway, my father left the army as an unemployed subaltern and after the First World War, and eventually got a job to my mother's employer was seminal gluckstein. In gluckstein, relatives firm Joe Lyons, which he didn't like, and[…]
