Jimmy Wright

[…]e in cotton. The clothing industry and Yorkshire cotton in Lancashire. Class pottery Crown Derby pottery Wedgwood pottery and the idea was that these photos will be […]

Dallas Bower

[…]from this kind of thing happening and now I don't know to what extent it's gone on insofar as British films as a whole are concerned but I gather the Crown Film Unit films have been made into cassettes and presumably that is the business of the Imperial War Museum. Because my, my information for thi[…]

Godfrey Jennison

[…]etch for proverbially. And went to work in this little processing lab. So I was only there only a year and a half or something because I then went to crown Film Unit a time into Kennedy's library everybody's home and his library Mr. Pentecost wonderful name and wonderful moment. And I was there in t[…]

A A (Tubby) Englander

[…]he public, to the British public, to tell them all about the background to the coronation, what has gone on before and the meaning of the jewels, the crown jewels and all this sort of thing. Interviews, we did interviews with various people, including the - oh, what do you call them? [Pause] The peo[…]

Edward (Teddy) Carrick (Craig)

[…]d look" and he went storming off and Cavalcante was watching all this and I never realised it and when the war started he got me in to look after the Crown Film Unit.SC:He remembered all those years back?EC: Yes. He said I was the only Art Director he had met who really believed in realism. This was[…]

Albert Critoph

[…]nother two person, might , besides me, as a cinema page, boy  there was  three of us. Then, after a few months, I got an increase of half a crown  I went up to 17 and six and and I was sort of made head page boy, of the other two, and, sorry about pause  just about over. And as I[…]

Howard Lanning

[…] with Orson Welles and Honour Blackman, and it's called the Last Roman. And we were running it in wonderful series in Wardour Street, I think was the crown theatre, and had two boys there who think he's about six and eight. And they were sitting in the front who's got a long narrow theatre, and you […]

Sarah Erulkar (de Normanville)

[…]p;Rodney Giesler  15:41So you eventually ended up at Shell. Sarah Erulkar  15:45I, yes, I got two replies, one from Shell and one from Crown. And the Crown one came four days after Shell. So I went, went for the interview at Shell and, and was accepted right away. My life would have b[…]

Leonard (Len) Harris

[…]work, well there were four of us I remember, we'd take it in turns as to who was to work late. And we didn't mind working late because you got half-a-crown if you worked after eight o'clock, for supper money. So if the unit worked until about half-past-seven on the floor, by loading and unloading an[…]

E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]r in fact I went in, and when I left, I sort of did it rather on the impulse. I forget what it was, something very stupid like he wouldn't pay half a crown for a taxi I'd had to get an artist back from the pub who'd disappeared, you know one of these sort of silly things. And anyhow, in somewhat hig[…]
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