[…]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[…]
[…] 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 […]
[…]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..[…]
[…]ia Sachs 28:45 I don't believe this! (laughter) Margaret Thomson 28:49 Yeah and after the, I thought, very stickiness of Crown, of Strand, because Donald Taylor loved to collect around himself a lot of intellectuals, Dylan Thomas, Stephen Spender, again it was the old bo[…]
[…] become a lighting cameraman and in 1940 he joined the Crown Film Unit, where he photographed Fires Were Started (1943) among others. […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…] pre-war equipment and stuff that had been used by the Crown Film Unit, I suppose, during the war a little bit, and […]
