[…]t see it.Tom Peacock: Oh I forgot that! [Chuckling] But in the wartime they had a film unit, I can't think of it, what was it called?Sidney Cole: The Crown Film Unit.Tom Peacock: Crown Film Unit. Well when the war started they wanted someone to do some camouflaging. Perhaps you can recall all this? […]
[…]the first ones.Thelma Myers. Do I mean her? Launder and Gilliat had a woman editor. Thelma Myers, I thought it was. There was Dora Wright who ran the Crown Film Unit with [25:40 - incomp].She was wonderful.And, well you talked about the two Box ladies: Muriel and Betty, but that really is a form of […]
[…] thought it was. There was Dora Wright who ran the Crown Film Unit with [25:40 - incomp]. She was wonderful. And, well […]
[…] two strip colour system from America, it was half a crown a foot to be processed, it was an overall […]
[…] processing colour, and they shot it in the studio...in the Crown Theatre... Alan Lawson: Oh yes? Cyril Page: The Crown […]
[…]Krampser[?] I think his name was, I don't know...Anyway, errm...he had this colour. He was processing colour, and they shot it in the studio...in the Crown Theatre...Alan Lawson: Oh yes?Cyril Page: The Crown Theatre in Wardour Street...Alan Lawson: Yes, just across the road...Cyril Page: Anyway, we […]
[…]d some preparatory work on a couple of things that didn't, that didn't go ahead. So I really knew most of them. No, John had by that time had started Crown Film Unit and I went in there straight away. Yes, immediately. Down at Beaconsfield.Stephen Peet: That was what, about '46 or something of that […]
