[…]of events, but I certainly at some point along the line there, I did some work for, I think it was called GB-I. What was that...Stephen Peet: Gaumont British Instructional.Philip Leacock: Yes. And they were very anti-union. Now that's the first thing I really remember, it was recruiting ACT members […]
[…]40  Pardon? No. This is the big irony of our lives here. We actually came over because my father was a diplomat. And he was working for the British Indian government, who had sent him here as a supply commissioner for cotton. He was in the situation of cotton import and export. So it meant[…]
[…]change location.And it happened all the time. I mean ask the catering people about that, because they’d be getting ready for the hot lunch that every British crew always wants, ready for one o’clockor something, and David would still be trying to make up his mind where he was going tobe shooting tha[…]
[…] explained it all.Roy Fowler: Had you had direction of that quality in the films that you had made before that? [Chuckles] Films directed by the British people?Joan Kemp-Welch: I can't remember the - Herbert Wilcox, who I made about five films for - he was also a marvellous director. And t[…]
[…]tter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.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[…]
[…]r, as being possibly a good story and a very necessary story, of course, we obviously in those early years were suffering very bad propaganda for the British. Ah, so I made this, er, originally twenty minute film about the full operation of submarines attacking Rommel's convoys.Alan Lawson: Ah-ha.Da[…]
