[…] it would have been silent. But I can also remember, long after that, when I was growing up, and very aware of films and actors and directors and the world of cinema, that's what my father did ,was the constant stream of visitors to the house. My parents were extremely hospitable. I can remember him[…]
[…]o, it just goes to show.I: Was that an ambition?CB: Oh, right from a child, I knew thatI: You knew what you wanted to do?CB: Yes because in the First World War mother used to take my brother and myself to the cinema every Saturday and I became enchanted with films, and I saw all the big ones I: YesC[…]
[…] consisted of a father who was in the engineering business, who would started making his own films and when he was young man just after the the First World War. So we have a very unusual 16 millimetre stuff. And I became very interested in this machine as a young boy, and he showed me how to work pr[…]
[…]sp;chap who worked at Universal News had been an artillery captain in the first world war. And he was told to advise me on what to take. So he came wi[…]
[…]an the whole length of the frontier between Germany and France. And the French kidded themselves that this was impregnable, that ever since the First World War, that they just now needn't worry about anything at all. They rather, sort of kept their armaments at a minimum for that reason, thinking th[…]
[…]me do a job for outside companies,Unknown Speaker  23:15  and I joined the majority of film technicians who were freelance, I did films for worldwide, edit films with Kay Mander, Mary Beals, I forgot was that data as director during the war, it was much easier for women to work in the film[…]
[…]peaker  27:09  immediate impression of that of them rather?Unknown Speaker  27:15  Oh, they were the most marvelous people in the world. They knew what they were doing, and they would, they would take instructions from me. I said, I want this and that and the other, and it would […]
[…]prep school I went to a prep school called Neville Holt which was near market harbour. An absolutely ideal spot totally isolated from the rest of the world on a hill. Surrounded by the most beautiful countryside etc. etc. It was an idyllic place to be a lot of people hated it because the headmaster […]
[…]memory, a feature of all filming I mean, I can remember to and I can remember other directors thing when I was editing. And then of course, I went to worldwide. So I ended up with well, because having gone to denim, and then to Pinewood I suddenly gotan offer from the blue to go andedit. And this wa[…]
[…]efore we go off this these early years 1923 years has been your year of birth and mine a couple of years later, actually, we both sort of entered the world. At the time when when the talking picture. A commercial commercially anyhow was starting to evolve and become a more practical consideration fo[…]
