[…] And we didn't mind working late because you got half-a- crown if you worked after eight o'clock, for supper money. […]
[…]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 - […]
[…] m aking of it! Margaret Thomson : That was at Crown was it? Jean Anderson: That was at Crown. 20 […]
[…] you were allowed to stay forforty-eight hours. But our combined wishes ensured that we actually stayed there for seven months,I think it cost half a crown week. We had our gratuities, if I remember rightly it was £28.Taylor/Peet: Was that the gratuity £28?Denis Forman: I had more than that over £10[…]
[…] carpenters and plasterers and so on. Denis Forman: That was Crown Film Unit you mean, of which you became Head. Taylor/Peet: Ye […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]ult thought being such a creative person. I don't think that he was branded depression. But I do think that he was a very worried man, the folding of Crown After all, the peace when it did come was a very uneasy peace we couldn't say that we had won the wars that cost us a fortune and you cost us in[…]
[…]rey Jennings never started by making the film he finished. And he would go out and of course, you couldn't do it and the Ministry of Information days crown during the war, shooting masses and stuff with the Blitz of factories of evacuees of land girls. And it ended up in cans, but as long as you rem[…]