Charles Crichton

[…]. This is the sort of thing that happened. I had been paid according to my contract, a cheque one day, quite early in the week, Friday night we had a crowd at Marlebone Studios and nobody had been paid and nobody was being paid, the crowd refused to leave until they were paid, the producer arrived a[…]

Christopher Challis

[…]e to film you. They said the Germans are still here and they surrounded us and took us to a house and a German half track appeared at the edge of the crowd which numbered several hundred people and they just stood and watched, they did nothing and went away. The Dutch resistance people turned up by […]

Tilly Day

[…] through Bill Lott, and Cecil Dickson had got me on the floor, and Thorold... It was the first week of the picture and Thorold was in the middle of a crowd of people and he was putting one here, and one there, one there... And he was up there, sort of thing, far away, and so Cecil Dickson said, "Tho[…]

Peter Tanner

[…]and later Carol Reed, Henry Cass and a number of distinguished documentary directors of the time. I've always been very friendly with the documentary crowd, I've a lot of time for. They used to come in a picture at a time. Some of the films were training films as such, for instance I went down to La[…]

Tilly Day

[…] the picture and Thorold was in the middle of a crowd of people and he was putting one here, and […]

Ronald Grant

[…]it was like going going to, you know, to the town hall to see those days, right the atmosphere,Speaker 1  24:21  the cinema, the halls were crowded with a backdrop particularly see boundaries in a middle of enough forested halos. So it's lots of spine, pine, spruce, all of the deciduous tr[…]

Michael Houldey

[…]e know what the Prime Minister looks like. But what we don't know is what the people that he's talking about look like. So that's why I'm filming the crowd. He said, Well, I hope you're not trying to make a political point. I said, Sorry, who are you? My name is Gerald Kaufman, I'm the payments and […]

Waris Hussein

[…]we shot in Los Angeles. I had the brilliant brainwave of having my character arrive in Dallas, in downtown Los Angeles, and on a long lens put all my crowds (who I think numbered about 50) in Stetsons. So long lens shot of Stetsons bobbing up and down with my lady in focus in the foreground. That's […]
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