[…]re is a resentment about that today, isn't there, but there was nothing like that in the war that I met.Interviewer (unidentified): Did you go to the cinema regularly?Jill Craigie: Yes, yes. It was wonderful, because the British films were coming into their own, and the American films were a huge jo[…]
[…] memory bank.Sydney Samuelson: Do you think anybody ever made you cry?Erica Masters: Um?Sydney Samuelson: When I was fourteen, as the rewind boy in a cinema, I had a chief who didn't think he'd done his job unless he made me cry!Erica Masters: It was in the cutting room that there was a very unpleas[…]
[…]time to die was the Gus Walker 39:53 Warwick film, and we were waiting for the rushes one night, about midnight. After the cinema had closed, and what was his name, Young. Terry young. He was directing "No Time To Die", but he was viewing a previous film, and Cubby was wai[…]
[…] in Ramsgate was up for lease, he became the tenant there, so we went into the hotel business, which was very nice because I had a theatre and 3 or 4 cinemas there which also did acts, pictures and variety, and of course Mum and Dad knew all the acts they used to come and stay at our hotel, it was a[…]
[…]ng I remember was that the company there was I think great. Anxiety as to what would happen because I believe at the beginning of war if over all the cinemas were shut temporarily but then they were open again. And I gather that they persuaded the powers that be that really cinemas needed to be open[…]
[…]l be served at four o'clock. Or whatever which went on the screens and the cinemas. Soon I was not aware you were finally up to him he did encourage y[…]
[…]nal ones.Yes.Yes, I think they probably stand out. [Pause] And also of course, with having got the negotiations over had the mass meetings.Yes.At the cinema to try and put it over to them.Sell it that was the word. [Laughter]Sell it was the word, yes. [Laughter][Laughter] We’ll have to sell this to […]
[…]es every time then. It was one of them.Sidney Cole: Yes. Did you go - apart from going to premiers of pictures you'd worked on, didyou go to the cinema much yourself?Tilly Day: Yes, when I had the time.Sidney Cole: Yes, sure. Well it could be very difficult, because we often worked ve[…]
[…] I'm going for my medical tomorrow. so he said when you've had y our medical you say to the officer you're to be reserved for the Army Film Unit as a cinematographer which I did. The bloke almost went puce in the face. He said we don't want cameramen, we want soldiers. So with that I went away with […]
