[…] residuals from the United States of America.” I said “How Much!?” She told me. And I’ve been getting it every year – I had one this year, for half a crown [12 ½ pence]. Can you believe it? It’s about twenty, thirty years old.[10.22]McG: It’s 1988, it’s Remembrance of the Daleks, it’s a very famous […]
[…]R: Seventeen; and when you wound the boom out full length you nearly cut your arm off hanging on to this thing, and if you weren’t careful you nearly crowned a leading lady. And of course the lights, the shadows were much more of a problem because it was a big mic and –LH: Was the boom moved about a[…]
[…]ed you...it was the bright young sparks who were coming along that were a damn nuisance! [Laughs.]John Legard: I remember a camera operator we had at Crown and whom I got to know a bit more afterwards, [Noel Rowland]...do you remember [Noel Rowland]?Peggy Gick: I remember the name.John Legard: Yes..[…]
[…]nbsp;Mining Review, I think the first few were made when it first started, which was some when during the war, I think, were made by, would it be the Crown Film Unit? I can probably find out, I can find that out for you, but anyway, and then they became made by Data Films and Data Films were still m[…]
[…]begin with, a picture of what we had to use. When I went to Pinewood - immediately - we had the pre-war equipment and stuff that had been used by the Crown Film Unit, I suppose, during the war a little bit, and Army Film Unit, making training stuff and so on. And the equipment basically was a six - […]
[…] got in there.JL: When the war ended, 1945, and people came back, at that time the Board expanded didn't it?DA: Yes it did.JL: Possibly as big as the Crown Film Unit, 100+DA: I can give you no idea but we had big premises and they were all full. Downstairs we had a very big negative room and then yo[…]
[…]time, even when we moved to Pinewood whichwas the beginning. After that we moved to Curzon St, after that we allmoved to Pinewood to join the RAF and Crown Film Unit. I won't detailanything about that, I, will go back to it. Then I got demobbed. Before Igot demobbed, we had had Muir Mathieson do a l[…]
[…]n, sometimes we finished at eight o'clock sometimes finished at midnight at eight o'clock. New had a supper allowance, which was in those days half a crown. And so consequently, you went up the road or you had a bar of chocolate or you took, went up the road of the road and head to the pub and had a[…]
