Dudley Lovell

[…]n't have stood for it these days because I used to take it down to him. And he'd be sitting after dinner as if it is Brandy and having a cigar with a crowd of people who we'd collected from the people in the hotel telling about our film business. And I'd taken down these negative clippings and haven[…]

Hazel Allen

[…]sp;project call itUnknown Speaker  31:51  and so we all went up in the car. Here it was lucky. All guys thought you know the usual all this crowd come out of the car everything Daddy's going to get with so excited. His big moment comes in he runs out and throws it over and it goes miles aw[…]

Elizabeth Furse (née Wolpert)

[…]lm that you made...Y es.When you, once you came back?I think that was the first one I did. And that was terribly funny, we had a long, very expensive crowd shot on, on Waterloo Station with Arthur Askey walking with a newspaper up to a kiosk. And six weeks later in the studio we had the close ups, y[…]

Lesley Gogarty

[…]rt of the film industry still exists where a lot of it is word of mouth, and they'll give you a brief or they'll send you the whole breakdown for the crowd, for the film, and ask you then to send suggestions over for the different roles. And you have to to bear in mind, if it's a period drama, the c[…]

Joe Busuttil

[…]ace.  I remember - do you remember George Dawson, the old scrap millionaire - we were closing up the kitchen one afternoon and he came in with a crowd of people and they said ‘anybody in the kitchen?  Mr Dawson’s coming in can you do him something?’  So I knocked up some grub for this[…]

Anthony Mendleson

[…]urs originally at one time, so what? You know, that sort of thing. I mean I'll never forget that when we were doing 'Kind Hearts' it was actually the crowd clothes there, Simmons where the costumes came from were extremely strict in the way that they let out clothes. And you weren't allowed back-sta[…]

Ronald Neame

[…] would stand by the camera, how French would stand a little further back? David would stand by the camera. And we would say let's say there was a big crowd scene of some kind. And David would say action. And Gabby would watch and then suddenly in the middle of the take, Gabby would say no, no, no, n[…]

Peter Stuart Mullins

[…]] Most of it shot around London, in the streets.DB: Hammersmith Bridge.PM: Yeah, all that. So we used to work nights as a kind of third assistant, or crowd controller, really, because there was five or six of us: a couple who went on to become well-known First Assistants. We were controlling the cro[…]
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