[…]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[…]
[…]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. […]
[…] or kindly reason I just couldn’t keep my hands off the opportunity of slapping the paste around and smashing up the poster.And I got an extra half a crown a week for that and suddenly Alan I was on a total of twenty-two and sixpence a week. Seems ludicrous now, but I sort00:28:2100:29:0700:30:04of […]
[…]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[…]
[…]se days. And you had a very early non-flam 35-mm, which was rather brittle stuff. Because I remember seeing some of that in the library when I joined Crown in 1943...this strange material which had been used for non-theatrical screenings, in the late 1930's.Pat Jackson: Yes.John Legard: So the outpu[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]assrooms benefit as well. However, for me, it was absolutely marvellous because it was the greatest training ground apart from the BBC, I suppose the crown Film Unit, andUnknown Speaker  9:11  I'm working toRobert Angel  9:16  I was working with an editor called bill Freeman, who[…]
[…]films for cinemas, propaganda films. My job at that time was sound camera operator, photographic. The Airforce Film Unit was also at Pinewood and the Crown Film Unit moved in. So the whole studio complex at Pinewood was full of government units.Peter Musgrave: What happened to Denham at this time?Jo[…]
[…]be very good, I said to Mac how did you come to be acknowledged as a great editor, and he said it's really Arthur, I forget who it was but one of the Crown Film Units had done a film on, a flying film, and he said he's one of these people who when you see his name on the credits you can't keep awake[…]
