[…]id you actually meet Hitler or anything like that?A Good Lord, no. No, no, no. We went on to the border and we were trying to portray thestory of the bestiality of the Germans towards the Jews and we were popping backwards andforwards over the German/Dutch frontier from...Q When?A This was 38. Yes i[…]
[…] he was having his breakfast to the hall or something, and they'd got seven seconds to do that. I thought, how the hell can I arrange this? I did the best I could and I said to [Charles Frend] "I'm sorry...this is a damned awkward shot for you but I couldn't do anything else." He said, "Oh, no probl[…]
[…]ameraman.Oh and he was the cameraman, too.Yes. Yes. Tony Havelock-Allan was the production manager.Oh, of course he was, yes. Yes. Athene Seyler, the actress, also came into it, who was delightful, we had a jolly evening meeting in the West End after production and she was sitting next to me and she[…]
[…]ain extent. I left school when I was fifteen, as soon as I could [laughs] I left school, get rid of that, and I swore I would never say they were the best years of your life, which everyonesaid you would do, but I haven’t up to now.May I interrupt for a moment? You tell us you were born in 1941 […]
[…]e the soundstage during the blackout Yes. And so you had to black the whole studio out to have a real fire no black fireproof it in fireproof blank asbestos blank.Unknown Speaker 42:32 The whole studio was built on it does You see? Did you remember that saysErnie Diamond 42:35 &nbs[…]
[…]t of it was in water. They put that there. That's however, burning film. Well, this lad took this blanket but I was quicker because I was near and as bestest blanket, and I met there may have been a mistake. I threw it over the projector from the non operating side. He pulled it down over there wher[…]
[…] certainly at the beginning, maybe right the way through until MGM were built, that had Western Electric. Which of course we thought no doubt was the best sound system there was. And there we had finished 'Wolves' at the Rock Studio, and we started with 'The Loves of Robert Burns' with a Scottish op[…]
[…]x picture at the Gate National as they they set up. He set up a very big organisation, which was going to be a nucleus of directors or producers, the best in the country. And um - actually it was one of my shortest jobs, I started on a Monday morning and was fired at lunchtime! On a thing called 'D-[…]
[…] here about three months, Denham closed down! [laughs] The only time I went over there was on music sessions!Jim Shields: It always works out for the best doesn't it?Peter Stroud: Yeah, yeah, dead lucky you know.Jim Shields: But Peter tell me, if I can just go back a moment...Peter Stroud: Hmm...Jim[…]
