[…]etup, he had been drinking quite a lot of wine, had things. And his assistant director, I think was Dickie Beverly, was more directing. It was mostly crowd scenes, and he fell asleep. So when we finished shooting, we all wrapped up very quietly. The lights went off and all everybody vanished. When h[…]
[…] of course I met all the then contract artists and that sort of thing at that time, and then gradually um...John Taylor: Did you pay the wages to the crowd artists and so on?Charles Wilder: Yes, yes.John Taylor: Well tell us about that.Charles Wilder: A guinea a day, the crowd artists were in those […]
[…]oys by then, I mean, we're now talking about 1945 and the beginning of 46 the boys were coming back, and they had asked me to become a small part and crowd casting director, because the film artists Association, which was the crowd artist union, was getting stronger, and they had started and inaugur[…]
[…] Five O’Clock Club.DS: Five O’Clock Club a bit, and then Five O’Clock happened and I had Gerry Marsden on that and the usual crowd, and that was a great fun programme. And I really never stopped from that moment on, just having fun. It was wonderful, every programme was fun […]
[…] was a pacifist and I would have been among the crowds who cheered Chamberlain. I thought that Czechoslovakia had been […]
[…]nobody wins a war, everyone loses. We all felt we'd lost the first world war, what we knew of it. So I was a pacifist and I would have been among the crowds who cheered Chamberlain. I thought that Czechoslovakia had been betrayed, there's no doubt about that. I thought it was a dirty trick that they[…]
[…] 30s, what else sticks out in your mindMaurice Carter: We're into the Crazy Gang period, the Crazy Gang series came and theywere a pretty interesting crowd to have around the studio naturally. In between we didfunny pictures like Hey Hey USA and things like that which I can hardly remember whothe ca[…]
[…]dle technical resources, which were becoming available by 1966 to allow us to answer a very simple question that came to me while walking through the crowds of people who flooded into the Abbey during 1966. They talked to each other, you could see them talking to each other, at every point, the coro[…]
[…] hotel. And at the end of the run you go over the top and into a big heap of soft snow. They didn’t go into the snow, they went into the crowd all round and we had buy paper dresses and things. [LAUGHTER] Chamonix-Mont-Blanc. Now, when we came back and finished this fi[…]
