Michael Colomb

[…]ovice crew to tear the set down. Taking big chunks out of the set. And always remember the the Americans the difference between the Americans and the British directors, British directors will never give up. They will always envisage the shot and shoot it as they envisage it. The Americans soon say a[…]

Gerry Weinbren

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Freddie Francis

[…]formation but information. And during this on one of my holidays I scrounged a visit to, I've forgotten the dear old publicity man's name, at Gaumont British in Lime Grove, can't remember his name, anyway I went and found the studio and there they were, they were shooting one of the Aldwych farces a[…]

John Shirley

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Maurice Askew

[…] out of the RAF. And er, I've been here ever since...Jim Shields: You were a dubbing mixer then were you?Maurice Askew: We were over at G-BI [Gaumont British Instructional] at the time...Jim Shields: Yes, that was what decided, was it?Maurice Askew: Hmm. I hadn't had - you know I'd been a sort of ge[…]

Teddy Darvas

[…]im in 1936. So this is why I presumed he could still remain a form master. Father could see what was happening. He had very good connections with the British Embassy.John Legard: And, of course, by then I mean Korda was over here by then.Teddy Darvas: By this time, Korda was famous.John Le[…]

Daphne Shadwell

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Peter de Normanville

[…]ional scientific.Peter de Normanville  19:55  I'll fill that in later. I can't remember. Anyway, I won it quite a few times. It was for the British Association for the Advancement of Science. I won it quite a few times, I had a rather soft habit. And on one occasion, the presentation was m[…]

Johnny Speight

[…]een a Shakespeare play probably themselves. So we weren't taught anything like that. So my culti.1re was going first of all from American cinema, not British unfortunately, because we avoided British films like the plague in those days. The word was is it American or Brit•ish, if they said it was En[…]
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