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[…] 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: Yes […]

[…] 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[…]

[…]ector called Connor who was married to one of the Savilles of the Shaw Shipping Line. And when he left, he left Newcastle, went down to London on the World Service which operated from Oxford Street, that big store on the corner of Regent St, it was the BBC then as well. We had a new station director[…]

[…]e always did the washing and every Monday, which we looked forward to, although there was no room to move, we had egg and chips which was out of this world. She was a super cook, you know, and all very plain cooking. So that was that.Q But you say you came home from school - what was your schooling […]

[…] not an actor, he’d in the navy in the First World War and jo ined the, the Air Force when […]