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[…] I can remember the soldiers coming back from the First World War and taking the puttees off for one other […]

[…]ut your family background and early life?Larry Allen: Well as far as I can remember, you know, I can remember the soldiers coming back from the First World War and taking the puttees off for one other relation. I was sat on the floor, you know. But to go back to my beginnings, I suppose it all start[…]

[…]same point as that, the BBC decided to step up their Arabic service broadcasts because it was really important to get as much news across to the Arab world as possible, so they tripled the hours at the time when most of the staff had left.  So, it ended up with Lionel Basri myself and Niem, not[…]

[…]Roy Fowler: What other devices have you invented - pioneered?Vernon Sewell: Well, I invented a gyro stabiliser, because in 'The Edge of the World' which I did with Mickey there was a lot of sea stuff, you see. And I made a gyro stabiliser out of an airship automatic pilot, but the gyros we[…]

[…]ay, because, I quickly realised that, as an editor you could spend quite a lot of time with your children; if they were ill, it wasn’t the end of the world if the editor wasn’t there, and things like that. As a director, you had to be there from seven in the morning regardless or the whole film came[…]

[…]re the great firm on all aspects of high speed cinematography, and are now in, I think, Bob England, or something like that, and are the major in the world, the greatest people on the techniques of high speed cinematography. So again, I added a little To my knowledge, and having done that, I felt an[…]

[…] So, for the duration of Britain’s involvement in the Second World War, women worked as ‘projectionettes’ to keep the nation’s […]

[…] and think of myself as rather priggish I think in someways. And...6Most of us were when we were young weren’t we?Yes, I think I took you, I took the world quite seriously. I mean growing up during the war and towards the end of the war I remember going to a conference at Westminster Halls for the C[…]