[…] 14 of course I was choreographing a film called, which was quite interesting, a film called Pagliacci, and I think I'm right, I think it's the first British film ever to have any colour in it.LW: Richard Tauber. Yes, it's got a sequence in colour at the end and at the beginningWT: Do you remember y[…]
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[…]een a Shakespeare play probably themselves. So we weren't taught anything like that. So my culti.1re was going first of all from American cinema, not British unfortunately, because we avoided British films like the plague in those days. The word was is it American or Brit•ish, if they said it was En[…]
[…]om there; we did the International show from White City, we really made show jumping. There was a fellow called Mike Ansell who was boss of the British Horse Society and he realised straightaway that it was a sprat to catch a mackerel, he was no fool. Because “Lobby” who had been boss of[…]
[…]ilm Unit also had meetings where they would get hold of people to talk to us. And I got hold of Hugh Gray, who was the research at Gaumont British at Shepherds Bush. And it was through him that I was able to do anything at all on films because there's no training, no way of get[…]
[…]both down. So somehow, how we did it I don't know, I wasn't quite the size I am now. So we got down, that was one of those things.We also went out to British Columbia to a small holding, there which was on the edge of the Pacific Ocean, and he had an orchard and a small field with some cows and he h[…]
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Tilly Day (continuity) 1903-1994by admin — last modified Jul 28, 2008 04:32 PMBIOGRAPHY: Tilly Day worked on over 300 British films between the 1920s and 1970s, most particularly as ‘continuity girl’. Her career began at Walthamstow Studios in the 1917 and she received her first credit in […]
