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Question: The first thing I would like to do is actually to ask you to tell us a little bit about how you got into design in the first place. Answer: That's what most people keep asking me. (I'm sorry) No it's fine I'm accustomed to that question. It was totally by chance, absolutely nothing to do with anything. I was in the army still, I was working on war crimes and interrogation, I got a life, apart from the theatre, I did have, and that was war crimes, number of trials onwards into other later war crimes. I'm in fact probably the last survivor of the British prosecution at Nuremberg. I think the others have all gone because I was only about 22 at the time and the others had been a long time but then I went into war crimes investigation and my headquarters was in Kensington Palace Gardens, just off the Bayswater Road and one went down to lunch quite often down to High Street, Kensington. I walked down Kensington Palace Gardens to High Street, Kensington, have a cheap lunch somewhere and one day a colleague of mine who went with me and I ran into, that's not quite the right word, saw two very pretty girls. We chatted them up and both of them turned out to be dancers at the Ballet Rambert at Saddlers Wells not the Ballet Rambert I do beg your pardon, from Saddlers Wells ballet. We chatted them up and one of them became my girlfriend and I was about to be demobilised, what shall I do? Oh I could go into the theatre. So the answer, my long winded answer to your question is I came into it because I had a girlfriend who was a ballet dancer and since I was unlikely to be a ballet dancer, unlikely to be an opera singer or an actor I took up theatre design because I had had some education as a graphic artist before going into the army but I did not want to go on with that and so I took that up and I was accepted at Central St. Martin's College of Art, which at that time was called Central School of Arts and Crafts by a well known English painter called Maurice Kesselman, who quite recently died, who was the father of Sarah Kesselman, the actress. Sarah and I sort of contacted each other and it's a small world, so that's how I came to take it up. |
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DS_20_06_01 (mini DV tape) |
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This clip may be used for educational purposes only, any commercial use of this material requires permission from the copyright holders. Misuse or misrepresentation may result in legal action. Copyright holder: Christie Carson, COMPH, Royal Holloway University of London. |
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2 minutes 45.01 seconds |
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