[…]lso made in Islington, weren’t they? Did you nip up there?PM: Once. I was again sent up there to help out on an Eve Boswell series. Eve Boswell was a singer, and I remember there was set with trees with orange blossoms wired on and the background was painted with clouds which I worked on, and she wa[…]
[…]e a cartoon film but of course in the early days even at Colford there would be a live act between the start of the film you would have a comedian or singer or someone or a pianist and of course in the early days you had a pianist accompanying the film before the soundtrack came about. Sound on film[…]
[…]d one time he was, one Christmas he got, ‘Oh that’s nice, someBECTU History ProjectInterviewee Interviewer Track NoYvette Vanson Katie Megan 418carol singers are outside the door, with a torch,’ you know, like a sort of, torch. And then he thought, I don’t know that that is a torch.’ And they’d set […]
[…]nbsp;was in it,obviously Pete Cushing, no Chris Lee was in it. And a gentleman called Leon Greene. Now Leon Greene was a trained opera singer and he actually made his film debut [in A Funny Thing Happened] On the way to the Forum film…..musical, opera. He[…]
[…]s,JK: Yes it wasI: Now I have something here about A Grip of the StranglerJK: Oh Boris Karloff.I: Oh was it?JK: That was fun. I played a musical hall singer, that time I had a musical number [sings] That was the type of number we should have had in TrottieI: How was he?JK: Marvellous, he was such a […]
[…] many shows at the BBC. Ernest Maxin 31:43 And I also did orchestrations, and I had Lita Rosa in one of my shows who was a singer at that time, and not Lita, Rosa, Jill Day and I did the orchestration for her the arrangement And the person she recorded for was a man called[…]
[…]'t be in the circus anymore and joined Michael Pitoeff Theatre and that was the beginning of his theatrical career. Well his sister Vera was an opera singer and she said, “Oh Yul you know we were born in in Sakhalin Island, Russian and raised in Switzerland.” So it was very simple but anyway that wa[…]
[…]Wednesday night which was very popular; BN would operate the spot light at these shows; BN talks about his experiences at these shows; bands, comics, singers from the local community would perform. 00:13:47 – 00:22:15 All film were on nitrate stock at this point and there were a number of stric[…]
[…]ff - pointless! What is the use of doing this [laughs]? Let's get on with the programme, you know. But as soon as the real talkies came out 'The Jazz Singer' and so forth, it was a different kettle of fish. By that time Western was in and - though they had disk as well, you know there was there was […]
