Denny Densham
Interview date(s): 4 June 1990, 5 June 1990
Interviewer(s): John Legard, Margaret Thomson
Production Media: audio
Duration (mins): 300
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[NB Transcribed from handwritten original by John Legard]
SIDE ONE
Childhood, parents, school.
Grandparents. (Mazawattee Tea, South American railways)
Visiting studio and meeting Sydney Box.
Selfridges film.
Blakeley Mancunian Productions
Ealing Studios: The Foreman went to France
Crown Film Unit: Fires were Started; True Story of Lili Marlene; Western Approaches.
To front line, with Jack Lee, 1944.
SIDE TWO
To Arromanches, with Ralph Elton; Falaise Gap and mines; Drive to Paris; Liberation; To Far East with Ralph Elton.
Jungle Mariners
Getting stranded on an island.
SIDE THREE
Trip to Penang, Malaya: Voices of Malaya.
Back home: Miners Weekend 1947.
Getting married; flying photography. Flying wing story.
End of Crown Film Unit.
Group Three: Child’s Play, directed by Margaret Thomson
SIDE FOUR
Recce for Man of Africa, with Cyril Frankel and Monty Slater.
Making of Man of Africa
Devil on Horseback, with Jeremy Spenser.
Make Me an Offer, with Barbara Woodhouse and her dog.
ITV starts. Commercials.
Sets up studio at Barnet, commercials production.
SIDE FIVE
Colonial Film Unit.
Stuart Legg, leading to Ministry of Supply.
Woomera Rocket Range.
Appointment as Government Film Advisor.
The to Tanganyika [now Tanzania] Government film department.
Visting Pope with [Julius] Nyerere.
To Moscow
United Motion Pictures. Insight Productions.
Own company and making of potted New Shakespeare: Macbeth.
Anvil Films. Ecology
SIDE SIX
To far east and China with Deben Bhatacharaya.
Film in China.
Recap, then talk about ACT (his number=1083).
General thoughts on the future of film, photography, electronics taking over.
[END]
Denny Densham was born on 6 March 1921 in Putney, London, England, UK. Denny was a cinematographer, known for Child's Play (1954), Man of Africa (1953) and Trouble with Junia (1967). Denny died in 1992 in the UK.
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