[…] the Generation Game. They said How do you put this trivial ghastliness on our screen. And it ends up as the Generation Game one of the jewels in the crown.No you have to stick your neck out occasionally.John Taylor: The BBC has a fantastic record for comedy, equal to it.there is nothingJimmy Gilber[…]
[…]lectric and we had to have an enormous truck for location work and he also had one of the dubbing theatres at Pinewood. The other one was used by the Crown Film Unit the RCA and the one we had we shared with the RAF. And we went out on manoeuvres and did various rather abortive films actually, for s[…]
[…]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 […]
