Frances Cockburn

[…]ast the night with Duncan Sandys on some films he wanted to make. And it was to be an interview with Mrs. Nehru, who was I think then the Indian High Commissioner in London. And we were all set up, we'd all been terribly tired. Looking at the the focus he was he was like a filmmaker, he just wanted […]

James (Jimmy) Gilbert

[…] and below the line.Jimmy Gilbert: Money that leaves the building and money which stays inside. Real money which goes outside. Below the line was the commissioners canteen, my salary, everybody else's salary. that was below the line. Then they brought in total costing, when did total costing come in[…]

Jimmy Wright

[…]sp;And technical areas. I mean you know weekly we know we have. We do have commissioners we do have telephone operators we have those kind of people that go&nbs[…]

Margaret Thomson

[…]o you?Margaret Thomson  31:27  Yes. Yes. Another another person who was at GBI at that time, was Stanley Hawes, who finally became the film commissioner for Australia, I don't know whether that's the title, but in fact, he founded the Australian Government Film Unit. And still lives in Aus[…]

Daphne Anstey (nee Lily)

[…]t was World in Action and Canada Carries on which Sidney Newman was in charge of for a while because I worked for him later, and Sidney was also film Commissioner, I can't tell you all the different things he did. Those were the two theatrical units.And there were a number of non-theatrical units an[…]

Keith Ewart

[…]things out of here that I know I'm going to have to take with me. And who was daft enough to give up the free Hall, the church Commission, the church commissioners were not drafted. They wanted to give up the free. Yes, yes. And they did well at the free. They want to tear down Arthur Kings Road at […]

Wolfgang Suschitzky

[…]azine because it was one of the ones my father was the manager of that Adams place. Uh huh. And you did quite a lot of photography for that. Yes yes. Commissioner made two pictures and knows about pictures which I had taken before. Also one of his other papers is that illustrated that you would give[…]

Bill Girdlestone

[…]to get good notices, and he did - do you remember Madame, she married the Duke of Bedford, a Frenchwoman producer - when she came to Denham Labs, our commissioner used to drool at the mouth. She was, I suppose, attractive - do you remember her name?Fowler/Lawson: I don't remember her name - Nic[…]

Cyril Page

[…] and he used to wire or phone up the...the um, Commissioner at the gate and said "Give him a good […]
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