I wasn’t able to stay here with my... Dutch friend, but we married here in Hampstead, and then went to Holland because I could stay with a Dutch citizen... married to a Dutch citizen. After a year in Holland, my wife left me, which was great luck because had I stayed there, I wouldn’t be alive anymore, I'm sure. So, I got... got myself a job in... in Holland photographing postcards for newsagents. I had to... I was sent to... all over the country, made contact with the local newsagent, and found out what views they would like photographed. I had a wooden camera given to me by the company who made... printed these postcards, but after a few months, in the winter there wasn’t anything to do for me, and I tried again to come to England, succeeded to get in as a student in 1935. Here my sister could help me, put me up in the beginning, in her house. I started to photograph children and took portraits and sometimes helped my sister when she had a larger job given to her, like the new bui... new block of flats in Kensal Rise, which was built for the Gas and Light Company. For the opening we made a brochure with photographs of the very modern building, or there was a hospitals, South London Hospital for Women, who wanted a brochure, and I helped her with that. But in 1937, I had the great luck to get an introduction to a documentary film maker called Basil Wright who had a look at photographs I had taken and liked them but he said ‘I have a very small company, only three people; I haven’t got any work for you, why don’t you go across the road to Paul Rotha’, who was a producer at a company called Strand Films, in those days. There was most of the British documentary movement of the ‘30s.