[…] Anyway, sorry. But just an interesting point, because I always recall was such a pleasure leaving Crown film in it and joining Edgar Anstey at British Transport films in Savile Row where everything was on safety stock, so didn't have to worry about yeah, that's always wonderful. lovelyl[…]
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[…] university at Biarritz, an American university, that the Americans had established for members of their forces, that gave some guest scholarships to British servicemen, and I was lucky enough to go there, and I did a six month course of journalism there. I was invited to go to the University […]
[…]ly. In fact, if I may digress for a few seconds Gaumont Kalee which was a rank company part of rank film equipment was a company which had existed as British Acoustics for a great many years. And in my view was a very much underrated company. I believe they made first rate equipment. And if they had[…]
[…]ric and out in Japan. And, after I had got my notice, after the amalgamation of HMV and Columbia, somebody said ‘D P Field’s at a studio called British and Dominion Forms out at Boreham Wood, Elstree, go and see him. I think he might find you a job’. I went out there to see him.&nb[…]
[…]d she had - amongst many of her clients - she had a lady whose husband happened to be at that time the general sales manager of a film company called British Lion Film Corporation. And Sidney Myers was looking, or somebody within British Lion was looking for some young blood, and Mrs Myers happened […]
[…]at which point Alex sacked us all - or at least all the lower grades - because they were moving to Denham. So, October 1935 I got myself a job at Fox-British, again in the publicity department, with a very very clever young man called Geoff Davis who did the most wonderful cartoons. And our chief jo[…]
[…]rated during my sojourn in Manchester I was able to anticipate a repetition during its normal run at Edinburgh. With the City due to stage the (then) British Commonwealth Games in the summer of 1970, it was agreed the premiere could double as a fund raiser for promoting this event and be staged on a[…]
[…]and we managed to get him in a uniform. So it was a most charming film, produced by Launder and Gilliat, the famous producers of many, many brilliant British films.[56] But we also did The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957),[57] an American production at MGM. Jennifer Jones[58] played Elizabeth Barre[…]
[…]ell I'll go back and check with him because I think I'm screwing up and this is the head of production of Fox talking to me. I mean I just the humble British cameramen over there to make a film. And I find myself in this position but the they were so frightened of him. I went back to John and said t[…]
