[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]tly to the despair of my father and mother because that was that because my father who was very good man but he thought Had no connection to the film world and thought it was rather fast. And he was a scientfic  frame of mind, but much more of a third and I went into some sort of other professi[…]
[…].Who?Louise Trenton. And she sang for him, well with, they had a wonderful crew of the people, this group that she sang with in the war, in The First World War, was composed of people like Chaliapin and [Laughter] all sorts of interesting pros. Anyway she stayed. My father took me back to America at[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]father. For example what was his profession? What did he think about all this?MD: He went along with it. My Father had not been long out of the First World War. He had been in the trenches with his brothers. He went through a large part of the war in France with two brothers. They looked after each […]
[…]  16:11  It must, must, must Indeed, I think it was made in. Can't think.John Taylor  16:23  Did you work on the second series of World of life?Paddy Carey  16:27  Yes. But not a third, there was a third, I think it's very positive. IJohn Taylor  16:31  think […]
[…]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[…]
[…]ll done, the rest of the guys would turn up at five minutes to the programme, push up the faders and it would all be fine. No, it was a kind of magic world to live in and that attitude of having a Union level of manning was kind of core to how ITV was at the time and, later on in my career when I st[…]
