Leonard (Len) Harris

[…] was. Then I came again on one of these LMG defence corps as a projectionist mainly, showing films, secret films to them. And they were a pretty nice crowd actually, they had some very decent officers there. A lot of them were titled men, very wealthy all of them, as Guard's Officers often are you k[…]

Patrick (Paddy) Carey

[…] collected us I think drove us down. We shot at sort of checkpoints, not actual checkpoints, but a barrier where the police stopped us. And there was crowds all along the route and so on. And then suddenly the crowd parted was polluted folding the back and we were full, you know, and we had a great […]

Ray Harryhausen

[…]one of Nigel's scripts and I think Jan read again worked on that one to a lesser degree is as Nigel. But in one of the sequence he says there are are crowds of Summer Nights and you've written in the script Definitely not. That way. I mean meaning that of course you couldn't do that. I mean you you […]

Peter Graham Scott

[…]cheapo. But it was good experience I think, at least I was handling actors, because the actors I had were not good actors, they were just practically crowd artists y’know, who didn’t respond to direction at all, and didn’t – you know, it was useless talking about motivation or anything like that, bu[…]

Phyllis Dalton

[…]Well, what you usually do, you’ve probably got a basic staff of three or four people andthen you have extra daily staff in if you’ve got a really big crowd that’s got to be got onthe set by half past eight or so.And do you also from time to time go to people like Berman’s and so on to hire in...Phyl[…]

John Dark

[…]e keeps on shouting at everybody where movie where movie. I don't. So we get an think and this is how we found him because he attracted this gigantic crowd which eventually a policeman turns up and there's this big man big white nose shouting We're moving. So that was the third day. So that was the […]

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[…]

Alan Izod

[…]les of some sort. And the mobile van, of course, had to have its generator. So that was put a little way away. So didn't make too much noise. And the crowds would gather both sides of the screen. So they a lot would see the film in reverse action, which didn't matter, usually, at all. Now, there was[…]

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[…]
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