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[…]sp;going into the marines, they were so smart, I didn't in fact. RF:  In Which we Serve was a landmark film in the British film industry  because suddenly this film came along whic h by         &[…]

[…]s period you were talking about, I guess it’s around the time of Kes, there was a push to all-colour production by the end of the ‘60s. Almost all of British features were shot in colour. Do you… from your experience, was there, kind of, was there ever a push back from that. You know, mentioning Kes[…]

[…]ifferent parts of the studio, you see?   ROY FOWLER: It was one large stage?HARRY MILLER: Yes, well they had two very large.  This was British International Pictures, Elstree, and you’d have three units, a Hitchcock and, I can’t remember at the moment, Monty Banks, Wilcox, all the old[…]

[…]st five minutes was a reconstruction, it ran about forty minutes and the last five or ten minutes was a reconstruction of the war in Burma, where the British won simply because they had better anti- malarial precautions than the Japanese. Um - now what did I do after that? I think I must have gone t[…]

[…]t things and it was really good, having two cultures, particularly in terms of film. I always, always, loved French films more than English films, or British films. Much later on I was very fortunate in working with Truffaut, on Omnibus, about his life.But, to go back, we then moved to Gerards Cross[…]

[…] as a young Jewish kid felt quite persecuted at school. They would institute things like let's chase Schlesinger, it was a sort of pogrom. I mean the British have been nothing if not anti Semitic I think tradtionally. And I remember the sort of interest in German expressionist films at that tim[…]

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[…]cript has been produced automatically using Speechmatics.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this interview.However, the BEHP wants t[…]

[…] got the sack and I stayed on! And after another - whatever it was - a year or nine months, I finally got a break into the cutting rooms with Gaumont-British Instructional, on the top floor of Lime Grove. And I made all the mistakes that you do when you're training to be an editor. Dropping the cent[…]