[…]Harry Watt pioneered, as you were saying, and it was a tremendous step forward. But for many years I used to say to Edgar [Anstey] in the old days of British Transport, I'd say, "What a pity we can't do a little more dialogue shooting, I'm sure it'll be a good idea, you know. In certain films we cou[…]
[…]r, as being possibly a good story and a very necessary story, of course, we obviously in those early years were suffering very bad propaganda for the British. Ah, so I made this, er, originally twenty minute film about the full operation of submarines attacking Rommel's convoys.Alan Lawson: Ah-ha.Da[…]
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[…]s, I think we were lucky in that. It did have attention. I mean, I think that was great to help by the Boulting  brothers, who were then running British Lion  that actually had his own short department division. Prior to that, I, I really walked out of or ran away and away to Paris. To stu[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]both down. So somehow, how we did it I don't know, I wasn't quite the size I am now. So we got down, that was one of those things.We also went out to British Columbia to a small holding, there which was on the edge of the Pacific Ocean, and he had an orchard and a small field with some cows and he h[…]
[…]check densities – Beaconsfield I learned an awful lot, because we had our own little lab, which when the studio wasn’t working did release prints for British Lion, for oh what was his name, Smith.LH: Herbert Smith?WR: No Herbert was the younger brother, big brother[?] they had quite a good distribut[…]
The copyright of this interview lies with the \british Entertainment History Project Interview with Lusia KrakowskaLusia Krakowska, Film Editor Interviewer Roy FowlerRecorded on the 23rdJanuary 1998Side One:RF: The date is 23rdJanuary 1998 and we're recording Lusia Krakowska, that is L-U-S-I-A […]
