[…]nds a week. And for about two or three weeks, or a month, they would take this money off you and they'd teach you what they could as regards making a film up and joining the two reels together, and making joins. Because you didn't have the automatic joins in those days, everything had to be done wit[…]
[…]hen it was taken over by a motion picture company - I'm not at all sure whether it was Paramount or something like that. And they used to make silent films round there, and occasionally they would enlist some local people for crowd scenes, everybody would be in it from round about you see, and there[…]
[…]ncle’ Mac in the family – he was never an uncle but in those days you called everybody uncle. He turned out to be David MacDonald who was a reputable film director in those days. I went down to Lime Grove studios with my dad and sat on the set. In his chair. And started work next Monday. In the scen[…]
[…]e ballet comes half way through Faust and I spent the evening on the roof looking at London burning. I think it was the night of that famous Jennings film of London burning, because I remember seeing St. Pauls back lit with fire. It was terrifying because the Wells is not far from St. Pauls.I got th[…]
[…]aylor: You said it was simpler in those days. So you had a good start in life.Bill Cotton Jr: In terms of the industry, yes. My brother went into the film industry, he was a pilot, a mosquito pilot during the war, and he caught TB, and when he was3rdcured of that he went to Shepperton and became a a[…]
