[…] was the only placethat had windows, there were no other windows in the studio, except in the offices.And Roy Fowler: Well it was a very hierarchical worldAnd Maurice Carter: Sure wasRoy Fowler: The way pictures went through, the process, there is the writing section, howearly was the liaison betwee[…]
[…] because I had an impeccable standard southern English accent and that was the accent I remember in my father who by becoming an officer in the First World War had adopted the conventional Officer's Mess accent. Now if I look back on it and think how that it would have been advisable given my politi[…]
[…]ite famous for photographing these lovely girls. And the Daily Mirror approach approached him and said that they were running the first international world beauty competition. They were looking for the most beautiful girl in the world. And the competition was already underway. And they asked him if […]
[…]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[…]
[…]y, and Marlene Dietrich's life story.RF: This is for fan magazines in England.VG: Yes and for newspapers.RF: Any particular newspaper.VG: News of the World, I did the Marlene Dietrich for, and it was the Sunday Dispatch that I did the Mae West for. And then I did the odd thing like there was an Engl[…]
[…]e operators or the cameraman? I worked for. As I said, for the library, I worked for standard Rob wall who was a very odd caravan he'd been round the world for the Prince of Wales on the repulsor. And the Prince of Wales did his world tour. And he actually was very, very Navy, I had to buy a hat to […]
[…]rything. And then the war started. Well, I knew I remember the ticker tape 1939 about the Germans had crossed the Polish border, and you suddenly the world seemed to stop. You thought it was all going to be like 19 1418, over again, because that's the only war you knew about. And of course, it wasn'[…]
[…]that number one, my father, his my grandfather, became naturalized, 19 on 100 Oh, six in this country. My father was interned in the during the First World War as a British subject in rule Leyden outside Berlin for four and a half years. He was, that time, connected with the cure, not line in Berlin[…]
[…] transmitter opened and we did a special film arranged for the Midlands, to greet the Midlands as Sutton Coldfield opened. Now this was a small world, the newsreel world, Dick Cawston, unquestionably, was the most important influence there.I:   What was his official title at th[…]
[…]into film and what films were like at that particular time, what made you feel that way about them?Eddie Dryhurst: Well we're going back to the First World War, around 1916, '17, that period. Well I was a youngster at school and I started going to the movies on Saturday afternoons with my father, an[…]
