The interviewer: James, you've had a very successful career as a film (1) ______________.
But tell me, can you remember the very first time you went to the cinema?
James: Oh, yes, very clearly. It was a Saturday morning in 1937. And my parents were
chatting over breakfast about how they'd spent the previous evening. They were talking about
the (2)______________. That's what we used to call “films” in those days. I was fascinated. I
was about five years old, and until that day I had never seen a film. I hadn't even heard of
(3)______________. In fact, we didn't even have a telephone in our house. Our only contact
with the outside (4)______________ came from the radio in the sitting room. I started
pleading with my father to take me to see a film. I think he felt a bit guilty because they'd left
me with a (5)______________ the night before. Anyway, whatever the reason, he took me to
the (6)______________ that very afternoon. The size of it amazed me and I loved the
(7)______________ immediately. In those days there was still an usherette, a girl who showed
you to your seats in the dark if you arrived after the film had started. And she was there with
her tray of sweets and ice cream in the breaks.