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[…] stages at Elstree. Now, once we had started shooting, was it MGM? I suppose it was, I don’t know. I think it was MGM. Whoever it was had got another picture being made that did a sort of Heaven’s Gate and ran through … and went grossly over-budget and ran through all their money and they came down […]

[…] a sort of, and the post office union with, with John Gresham [ph 18:50] they had, they had political aims, you see.Right.They did this. But I was in pictures, you see. So...So, I was going to say let's then go back to that time at Elstree, was there just the one film that you worked on?No, no, I we[…]

[…]ch was called the spinning box which was a crate on a spindle. It was a four-sided box with a lid and what happened was that it started spinning, the picture opened with this thing spinning round in a horizontal plane, with Bach's Partita, an orchestral arrangement by X X, as I remember well. And th[…]

[…]eak!" And I suddenly - a great revelation came to me, you know, the cutter could be - it never occurred to me to do anything else than to do what the picture demanded, but he wanted to make sure his close-ups were there. So that was an interesting piece of information. And then Ian said, "You can as[…]

[…]manufactured, I think my first job. Well, it was at the time British acoustic. They were recording film on separate, separate film, like you had your picture, and British acoustic had the 35 mill film with the full width as a sound track. Yeah. And that fell through very, very quickly, but I was wor[…]

[…]s accents which especially the women had. Real white telephone stuff. Those two shows in the West End. How did a rising young actor regard the motion pictures?Robert Beatty: I was all for learning as much as I could, and when I was understudying Raymond Massey he was doing a thing called Black Limel[…]

[…] started a film society and was buying Close up and had Paul Rotha's Film till Now which I thought was absolutely wonderful and I used to look at the pictures and wish they could move, and we started the film society and wrote to Grierson who was really quite a hero and he said come to Oxford St whi[…]

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