[…]ar effort, they would be released’. So I went to see Basil Wright, who I was still in touch with, and he said “well, they’re starting to think of the colonial film unit”. Now this was about…D-Day had already happened, and I suppose it was about July or August 1944. And er, so erm…I went and saw them[…]
[…] John Paddy Carstairs. Joined COI after leaving Navy working on colonial films. Formed Central African Film Unit as Producer 1948 […]
[…] I had decided that I was going to be the greatest director since David Wark Griffith it was around that time. My mother always said “He’s film barmy” because I was always trotting off or insisting on being taken if I couldn’t get in by myself, even then I was keeping up. Kevin Brown[…]
[…] the customers with me when I could. And that was a very nice year. Not good for the health, I don't think. ButRoy Fowler 8:02 were these colonial white mischief days? Well,Keith Ewart 8:05 I don't know about mischievous Yes. I mean, certainly colonial. It was before Yahoo. S[…]
[…]ight on stage with his Union Jack and his West Ham scarf on and he says “Why aren’t you standing up, it’s the royal bloody anthem, oi you, up. Bloody colonials ain’t they, you've got to learn better manners mate!” and rip them for a good ten minutes before going into the scene. But what has happened[…]
[…]How did that come about?Ray Morse 6:19 I used to have an uncle that lived out there was almost an American, you know, and he worked on on films. You know, in the early days, it was sort of an odd jobs man is to carry the camera about and do bits of crowd work and stuff like that. Because[…]
