[…]hen I'd really started doing continuity, because I don't remember being associated with that agreement. Anyway, it was sixty hours a week, and half a crown if you worked more than sixty hours! [general laughter]Sidney Cole: A great triumph in its day!Kay Mander: Terrific, yes.AL: Yes, that's the six[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] order at: Sound City (Shepperton), Denham, Pinewood, Army Film Unit, Crown Film Unit, MGM -Borehamewood, Shepperton and Rank Film Labs . Born […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] as an assistant at the GPO Film Unit (later the Crown Film Unit). After working on Night Mail (1936) among other productions, […]
[…] as an assistant at the GPO Film Unit (later the Crown Film Unit). After working on Night Mail (1936) among other productions, […]
[…]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[…]
[…]st that I couldn't remember a particular film. Johnny's was caught rather share it with me about we went to see a film isn't the answer, Nemo for the crown jewel unit, john Taylor, I think was then head of that unit. And it was a film about the treatment of young offenders who come out on it. And on[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
