Francis Searle

[…]not non denominational, and it was not a, it was not not so much a religious gathering as a gathering of me, because this is sort of candy. Was First World War. And I was a babe, almost Yes, sent away. Sent away during that time, down to mid Ted, actually. But he was, you know, terrific. I. A man of[…]

Ernest Marsh

[…]ou came from your early years? Yeah, Ernest Marsh  0:44  I was born in Folkestone, Kent a couple of months before the end of World War Two, and lived there until 1953 in the day after the Coronation in 1953 we moved from noisy Folkestone to a little hamlet in in Suffolk call[…]

Gordon Courcha

[…]ompensate for the extra five years.Unknown Speaker  31:51  Ironically, not long afterUnknown Speaker  31:55  I joined what became worldwide television news table. We set up our own pension scheme with retirement at 60. And I did point out thatUnknown Speaker  32:11  tha[…]

Charles W Smith

[…]Tatler Liverpool, the Tatler News Cinema in Liverpool. That was, I see, on the 13th of January 1952. This was the first public cinema anywhere in the world to show polarized 3-D projection. The cinema screenings were a great success. Surprisingly as it may seem, our program of 3-D shorts broke […]

Sarah Erulkar (de Normanville)

[…]cumentary.Did you see documentaries at that time?No, not many. But, you know, I mean it’s the usual thing I suppose, I wanted to do good for the world, I wanted to go back and rescue India from the bloody British, you know, that kind of thing. And I think that was all part and parcel of it, you[…]

Cyril Pennington-Richards

[…]t of carry on with Jack Cardiff until I got back. So I said, "Well that's rather silly, because Jack Cardiff is the best Technicolor cameraman in the world - it just doesn't make sense." And Pat and I were great buddies you know, almost like brothers in fact, and I said, "Forget it - get on with it […]

Harold Myers

[…] approaching a slum in the back waters of Notting Hill, and it was apparently I was a kid with my parents. It was a hard struggle, and when the first world war came, my father, who had not been naturalized, was given the option of either becoming a naturalized British subject and serving in the army[…]
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