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[…] Transcription Date: Unknown - draft analytical transcription by Sarah Easen, British Universities Film and Video Council Interview Date: 1989-09-25 Interviewer: […]

[…]knowledge, in about 1927-28 to Pathé and was a camera man for Pathé Gazette and then, whensound started, he joined Fox Movie Tele-news. Now, or then, British Movietone is. He went tothe States to learn the technique of sound coverage and came back, continued to be their ChiefCamera man until about 1[…]

[…]this, it can't come in more if it's got 25 miles, 30 miles of wire in between [LAUGHING] And he thinks a long time and he said, Oh, yes but we've got British repeaters. I say yes, it has nothing to do with that. You know you're the on the incoming side, you know.  So of couse eventually we[…]

[…] 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[…]

[…]m Unit", "TIDA", and making films about Britain for sending abroad. You can go by its title, and. [00:14:30] I: It's kind of a forerunner of the British Council? [00:14:33] Yes indeed. And on the staff there working was Alan Izod as editor. Margaret Thompson as editor, Frank Bundy as occas[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]there writing autographs, Deanna Durbin was there, Brian Aherne who was a flying instructor with Thunderbird Field was there, because he was training British pilots.John Taylor: You had wings by this time.Jimmy Gilbert: yes, I had two sets of wings.John Taylor: Why two sets.Jimmy Gilbert: You gradua[…]