[…] wanted to be in the film industry, because my I didn't want to follow my father's footsteps. And he was become the leading light in the amateur film world. And I I thought, I want to be a scientist because that's what my uncle was. I thought that sounded interesting. But I didn't I wasn't quite goo[…]
[…]idn't do any work, did a lot of acting. Sport and things like that, but not much actual. But the university at least introduced me to the rest of the world. Yeah, whereas Eton and all the private schools very sort of privileged. During my childhood, I lived in London to the war when we were bombed o[…]
[…]tly to the despair of my father and mother because that was that because my father who was very good man but he thought Had no connection to the film world and thought it was rather fast. And he was a scientfic frame of mind, but much more of a third and I went into some sort of other professi[…]
[…], but a one is in my innocence. I said to the major there, what does a one mean? He says means to be able to undergo severe strain in any part of the world, which I took a pretty poor view of and went back to the railway I need to be covered, only to be called up before the work, before the war was […]
[…] and he was going off to some...outlandish place in the world, and...I couldn't get a work permit or something, so […]
[…] absolutely found it the most thril ling thing in the world : editing film. It was pure magic. And that […]
[…]ure that you've got the message interesting, and make it the right balance to say nothing of the fact that POF had a legion of followers all over the world.Unknown Speaker 21:50 And you don't want them to turn away from it thinking that it's it's a hatchet job or anything like that. Anyh[…]
[…]lms very well. Great people. William Powell and Ronald Colman, the Englishman with the velvet voice - I didn’t think he was the greatest actor in the world but [he] was very successful. He followed in the footsteps of people like C Aubrey Smith, because they kept their voice [“posh” English] “like t[…]
[…].I wanted to...and er...He...he was gonna get married. He was going to Ireland to get married, and he was going off to some...outlandish place in the world, and...I couldn't get a work permit or something, so I...I missed the opportunity of working with him. But I...I only did a few inserts, that's […]
[…]your dad in the forces?No, he wasn’t, he was too old. My parents were quite old actually, you know, they had me late. My father was in the First World War, in the cavalry. Along with I think four or five other brothers, of whom one was injured and was never quite the same again, but the others […]
