[…]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[…]
[…] St where we also did run, the second camera course was run from there. The chaps used to march up from Marylebone Hotel and then they decided as the Crown Film Unit was going to Pinewood and there was more room than they wanted, it would be a good idea if the RAF Film Unit and the Army Film Unit jo[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]es, it's sort of about the earliest birth of the documentary movement. In fact, the GPO was definitely before Shell. But I think Shell was before the Crown Film unit to be formed.Sarah Erulkar  24:52  But Peter was telling the story before you arrived that cause it was rather sad was that […]
[…]ous objector and survived the scrutiny of the tribunal i was allowed to be registered as such and was kept at the GPO unit which by then was made the Crown film `unit and possibly because of the air raids and we witnessed the first major bombing fire raid on london we had a grandstand view of it and[…]
[…]ne production. I gather, he was a very difficult director to work for but he'd had a distinguished career with the GPO Film Unit and subsequently the Crown Film Unit, I think. Roy Fowler  37:59  Yes. Yeah, I'm not sure, I see your point. I'm not sure why he seems not to be t[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]his happen. And I was sent off to see Sydney Bernstein at the at the at the MOI. And the result of this was that I went down to I was sent off to the Crowne Film Unit and spent well quite a long time there. Well, I worked with some I was still an assistant. And I worked with well which boy you at th[…]
[…]mber before I came, no. I know I was a member and I kept it up for years afterwards but that's all which helped after the war when I had a job in the Crown FilmunitandIcannotrememberhowmanyyearsIworkedintheCrownFilmUnit -2-3 years, I did the foreign versionsRF: Again lets not jump ahead we'll come t[…]
[…] They hadn't shut the door of the camera! That was that! So anyway Harry Watt, who had just done 'Target for Tonight' which was a documentary for the Crown Film Unit, said, "Why don't you go to the Crown Film Unit?" Well I was making about a hundred and twenty a week with Wanger, and he said, "Why d[…]
