Search Results for: Colonial Film Unit

[…]et, I think it was, from Albany Street, which was probably the nearest. And then I thought what do I do now, so I got in touch with what was then the Colonial Officeand...                     &nb[…]

[…] Drama Departments of BBC, ABC and also controller of Canadian Film Board. Intervi ewer Norman Swallow (NS ) with Alan […]

[…]ducer in Hollywood at that time. He had his own studios at Culver City and very attractive studios they were. The executive offices were built like a colonial mansion.Roy Fowler: Well anyone who's seen a Selznick picture has seen the front...Eddie Dryhurst: Right. And DeMille was negotiating, or con[…]

[…]dapest which was where all the journalists and actors and writers met and they owner of that cafe got a projector and put up a sheet and he had these film shows. And my father took Alex to see it and it seems, according to my father, that Alex said 'that is the thing for me' and that is when he got […]

[…]to Kenya since, oh god the sixties or seventies, but again I find the English presence not particularly pleasant. I don’t think they are the greatest colonialists. I felt uncomfortable. I mean Indian I loved the one time I was there I thought was very good….Did you…were…I was… I was keep on forgetti[…]

[…]ecause althoughthe tribes don’t wish to be, perhaps at the moment, wish to remember what it was like intribal times, and maybe they were held back by colonials and all that sort of thing, and all they wanted to do even then, Armand used to say, all they want to do is to wear a Mickey Mouse t-shirt, […]

[…] as a real man. That's right. Did you meet up with any of the British colonials at that time or were they. Yes because no they weren't unapproachable. For&[…]

[…] working initially in the theatre and subsequently on screen. Her film credits include The Citadel (1938) and Goodbye Mr Chips […]

[…] there and enthusiastic. He then went out to Hollywood and became a great lighting designer in Hollywood.Roy Fowler: Yes, he directed one or two films out there, didn't he?Joan Kemp-Welch: Yes and he died, oh, I suppose about twenty years ago, didn't he?Roy Fowler: I can't remember wh[…]

[…]amlet in in Suffolk called Somerton, and That's basically where I've had my early years, I went to the local schools and where I first had a piece of film in my hand, piece of 9.5 film of Alan bes army, and with a hand cranked 9.5 projector. I was there for the rest, rest of my younger life, and eve[…]