| 1964 - CP seated at left, Charles Platt standing next
to him, with Edward James and ... can you identify the fourth person on the
right of the picture? [Click here if you can't.] The
occasion was the Easter convention in Peterborough, the first any of the people
here had ever been to. (This blurry fossil from four decades ago, when men were
men and still wore ties, is a single frame from an 8mm home movie taken by Dave
Barber, and rescued for purposes of blackmail by Peter Weston.) |
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1966 - CP directing his first film, Second Chance. "The
script was based on a short story of mine (never published). The film stock was
'borrowed'. I had never worked with nor even met the two actors before the day.
They didn't know each other. We had no time for rehearsals, and the script
existed only in my head. After the first day's shoot, the film came back from
the lab irrecoverably under-exposed. There was never a second day and I
abandoned my directorial career forever." (Photo by Dick Howett.) |
| 1968 - Science fiction convention in Buxton. Other
panellists were John Brunner, Kenneth Bulmer and Thomas M. Disch. (Photo:
unknown.) |
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