[…]l, he came down. Billy Shenton also came down and did some extra scenes, or some extra camerawork. We also did some experimental sound recording with British Acoustics but it was a full width track and the picture camera had it's two back legs in a special kind of booth in the sound van and it was a[…]
[…] looked around for something else that would use my zoology and would give me a satisfying life. And I had the greatest good luck to hit upon Gaumont-British Instructional, who at that time, were making a great number of natural history and zoological films under the guidance of Julian Huxley, and P[…]
[…] extra camerawork. We also did some experimental sound recording with British Acoustics but it was a full width track and […]
[…]arles Wilder: Yes. I did that one, that was at Shepperton. I did most of the films at Shepperton. Because I was partly under an agreement to work for British Lion at one time but Maurice Ostrer wouldn't - I was still working for the Ostrers and he wouldn't sign the agreement so I just carried on wit[…]
[…] is being satisfied by American products and not very many British films are being made, unfortunately. But another thing I meant […]
[…]oke, with the Schufftanprocess, very, very good shot for that periodRoy Fowler: The other famous one usually pointed to is one of the Hitchcocks, the BritishMuseum sequence in not Sabotage, I think it was SabotageMaurice Carter: Sabotage was made at the Bush, of course. Vetch and I worked on The39 S[…]
[…]04:00 [laugher] all together as it contained both sexes and also it was the time when there were a lot of intermarriage between the Indians and British service people, and there were a lot of Anglo-Indian children at this school and they were very disturbed because if they happen to have come […]
[…]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[…]
[…] Did you encounter much industrial strife at that time in British films? I mean, people walking...? Vernon Sewell: There were a […]
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