[…]nly reason she cottoned on to me was because that time, after the war when everything was difficult, I was the only person she knew in London who had central heating, it was that very cold winter. This is where we got together and this was through Michael Balfour that I went.RF: A long and successfu[…]
[…]y with our compensation.Unknown Speaker  45:34  You know, yes, that's right.Roy Fowler  45:40  And there was a massive meeting at Central Hall Westminster, when the membership finally took it back into into its own keeping got rid of the trots. We're coming to the end of the side[…]
[…]v, there was, there was one in Liverpool (um) but there was no national commission. This is it. There was no national commission meaning there was no central body which said, we don’t mind where the movies are made as long as they’re made in the UK. The Liverpool Film Office they worked diligently t[…]
[…] we... three weeks, after we'd started shooting, Movietone sent me the cable, after I'd asked for permission, immediately, and, through John Turner's office, we got it, er... they said, um, "no - no market for it," you see. The fact remains it's subsequently sold in twenty languages, that film...Ala[…]
[…]e any better with the sound effects, you know, being a grade D programme engineer. And of course it was soon after that, that we got out and got into central programme operation. John P. Hamilton  12:27  Well the amalgamation didn't happen until early '49 did it?  […]
[…]:27  Davis was was the chief accountant for the rank organised. Roy Fowler 1  2:31:30  So he's gotten to these the central organising by this time. Ronald Neame  2:31:35  And because we were all young filmmakers together, Frank, Lorna, and […]
[…]punch and die out of the head as a setup, put them in the RAM in the tool room, and locked the die down and the punch up, and made sure that you were central on registration. Yeah. Then you took your you put some clamping pieces around the die so that you've got to go back exactly where it came from[…]
[…] and then we were sent all over to anybody who wanted a secretary, because they didn’t have secretaries, I mean even Roger Makins who was head of the Central Department in those days, and you can imagine that at the beginning of the war how busy he was, he answered his own telephone. So if he was tr[…]
[…]I had to get the famous workmen's from Ruislip to Wembley Park. No two were to Willesden Willesden Green it was a trolley bus I think to Hendon Central and then it was a train from Henderson central to Elstree and then about a five minute walk from our Elstree down to the studios now that's go[…]
