Ronald Neame

[…] an hour, an hour and a half. And we asked Junior characters were given one in six months to go out and buy a sandwich. And we used to go down to the crown in Boreham wood, because you could get a decent sandwich there and a glass of beer, and it only cost you one six months. But it was there that w[…]

Vivienne Collins

[…]re both very fond of each other at that stage. And he introduced me, he was a dentist and he introduced me to a patient of his who was a cameraman at Crown.Who, sounds very interesting.Yes. And he actually talked to me about the whole documentary film movement, and this stirred up a great interest i[…]

Joe Mendoza

[…]came, they were you know, and he was like that. He was marvellous guy, mouse guy. And also about care, really, which I wanted to say is that when the crown when the GPL filming, it became so significant, because it was an extremely significant unit as part of the war effort then, beyond everything. […]

Roger Bernard Newbold Smither

[…] come on to what’s happening this year in a moment. Certainly historically I would regard Battle of the Somme as being one of if not the jewel in the crown of the IWM Film Archive partly because of its huge symbolic experience in terms of the overall British experience of the First World War and the[…]

John Krish

[…]that I'd got through the police that she - she was immediately very taken with me, and got me to see Ian Dalrymple who was head of the unit. The Crown Film Unit I think it was then called, it had been changed from The GPO Film Unit. And he was also very taken with my initiative and gave me a jo[…]

Wolfgang Suschitzky

[…]the chance to do a film for Granada TV called staying on, which was a novel by Paul Scott, one of the series, the first, probably of the jewel in the crown books he did. It had Silvio naritzano As director. The producer was arranged and it was shot in Simla, in India.Speaker 2  32:35  We h[…]

John Shearman

[…]own Speaker  24:10  The reason that the Air Ministry, their airships, decided to form a Film Unit was because, in my opinion, Harry watt at Crown had made target for tonight. He'd made that film about the balloon barrage people. Squadron 992Unknown Speaker  24:28  Jack Holmes was[…]

Francis Gysin

[…]meant because I worked on some of the earlier one must have done years and crown in fact made the first six of them. But then it was decided that sinc[…]

Richard Marden

[…]ey  was very clever because he he went in the industry before I did I have a target together  But he left before I did. And he joined us at Crown Film UnitAlan Legard  15:04  That's right. And I remember Godfrey arriving where he worked in the film library with me it was a dear o[…]
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