[…]ad I had booked ourselves into a hotel with a re an Italian name of Bauer groom, valte Hotel, which was quite a big hotel now. Nice, not on the Grand Canal. And we got into a gondola, my punti down the Grand Canal to the little canal that led to the bar got involved. And I remember David saying, bec[…]
[…]ad I had booked ourselves into a hotel with a re an Italian name of Bauer groom, valte Hotel, which was quite a big hotel now. Nice, not on the Grand Canal. And we got into a gondola, my punti down the Grand Canal to the little canal that led to the bar got involved. And I remember David saying, bec[…]
[…] That meant that the Paramount and the other companies would be pinching. On one occasion I remember having to pinch from a barge, that went down the canal.[Break in recording]Alf Tunwell: I mean of course the canal which runs down the side of the Aintree racecourse. Everybody knows, for instance, t[…]
[…]irk'. That's all I think. And the studios were sold to the BBC. Sadly the films were sold to Warner Pathe and subsequently of course are now owned by Canal Plus. Roy Fowler  19:45  Whoever knows who owns the library these days.  Jonathan Balcon  19:48&nbs[…]
[…]n the night of the filming Tubby, dear Tubby Englander was the cameraman, which was very nice. And we had a lovely moonlight night and we were on the canal near Harefield where we always used to go when it was meant to be Free French and the canal you see we went there.The catering wagon was late, t[…]
[…]ding where you were on. And learn, learn what to do, and did it and we made our way and it took about five or six weeks, you know, through the Panama Canal to Wellington, New Zealand and round the coast, both islands North and South. Had a bit of time ashore, doing that and so on. Met one or two, we[…]
[…]t you shoot a bit closer.SC : And they did.CC: And they did. Then we made Painted Boats. A more docile peaceful experience.SC: That was the one about canals which I seem to remember because I was at Ealing at that time, you enjoyed very much, was Bill Blewit on that one.CC : Yes .SC : Tell me about […]
[…]a lifetime really. When we went ashore at some of the ports we pulled up at, like Cairo and of course in those days boats were going through the Suez Canal so we did a lot of filming through the Suez Canal and then down to Karachi, Bombay, Colombo and across the ocean to Freemantle.Roy Fowler: A que[…]
