[…] 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[…]
[…]k probably you are right. But can I just say that to start as it were in the middle, as I think you know, he was knighted in 1947 for services to the British film industry during the war. He was also a Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olaf, Norway, which he and Charlie Frend acquired I think b[…]
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[…] Film Laboratories. In 1980 he became involv ed with the British Kinematograph Sound and Television Society (B SKTS ) and […]
[…]he sound department won a Hollywood Oscar in 1939 for the sound recording on Goodbye Mr Chips which starred Robert Donat and I think it was the first British film to achieve this award.Peter Musgrave: Western Electric came from America. Where did Visatone come from?John Aldred: Visatone was manufact[…]
[…]there that my granny frequented, and who I was brought up by, by the way, by granny, and he was telling everyone [American accent] “how wonderful the British are.” And he left the pub and he was interviewed again by somebody on this newspaper and he said “yes” and as they left, he put his hand into […]
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[…]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[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]rvey? who at that time ran the railways and harbours obviously for Kenya, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. They the Kenya railways are supposed to be like British Rail had had not fantastic publicity the press write us, they tend to break down quite a bit. And so they wanted to do a bit of public r[…]
