[…]omething else that I could do better than anyone else in the school. So when I was leaving at the age of fifteen and a half, she took over a derelict cinema, she wasn't going to put on a play in the school hall that was normally done, and she sort of knocked it into shape. And she put on a play abou[…]
[…] oddly enough - I had to make other films in between, which the filmmakers - as I say, there were no distributors - knew they could sell to the local cinemas up and down the country. Things like 'Her Luck in London', 'A Lancashire Lass', things like that, you know. They were real melodramas: the the[…]
[…]bsolutely wonderful! And the film created something. It was the first film ever commercially to make a colossal hit in Russia for instance. It ran in cinemas, two cinemas, and they queued in the bloody snow to go there! And our films about the war of course had always been jolly schoolboy romps, lik[…]
[…] really being a filler. I don't know if it would be interesting just to read what was said, 'The British short film Doss House is to my mind the best cinema - entertainment in London this week, I suggest if you're still distrustful of British film s you'll leave the Empire hopeful’, that was the Dai[…]
[…]G: To pick up what I was asking, you've mentioned quota films severaltimes. What exactly were quota films?DB: There was a law brought in that British cinemas, American films, ofcourse, were flooding the market. The First World War had seen to that.British production and European production had dropp[…]
[…]anada anyway, so it was only my mother that was interested in it.Arthur Graham: I see, your family didn't have any connection with the theatre or the cinema or anything like that?Eric Cross: None whatever.Arthur Graham: Where were you living at that time? How did you get to and from work?Eric Cross:[…]
[…] - at the beginning there was a scene in a cinema. And it started off with four, what were then […]
[…] didn't h ave any connection with the theatre or the cinema or anything like that? Eric Cross: None whatever. Arthur […]
