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[…]nbsp;1:58  Holmes. Jack. Holmes was interviewed because he had just made a very good film on venereal diseaseUnknown Speaker  2:06  at Crown formula Yes, called people at number 19,Unknown Speaker  2:09  Yes. And John Taylor was interviewed. And various people youUnknown Spe[…]

[…] 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[…]

[…] directed that, do you remember?Tilly Day: Oh George Banfield. Then there was Fern Andra... Baroness Fern Andra. Now she was the mistress of the Crown Prince of Germany, the Kaiser's son, and, oh! I was thrilled to hear all this 'dirt'!Sidney Cole: [Laughs].Tilly Day: I'd never heard […]

[…]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[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]olemnly quoted ever since in official documents. Nobody ever corrected it. So much for realityAL: What are your reactions to Empire Marketting Board, Crown Film Unit, GPO Filla Unit, . these various other units?SC: I worked on a film for the Empire Marketting Board which never got made. It was very […]

[…]t see it.Tom Peacock: Oh I forgot that! [Chuckling] But in the wartime they had a film unit, I can't think of it, what was it called?Sidney Cole: The Crown Film Unit.Tom Peacock: Crown Film Unit. Well when the war started they wanted someone to do some camouflaging. Perhaps you can recall all this? […]

[…]t. Of course John Grierson was attached to Group 3 when we got as far as Group 3.BA: Great leanings [HANDWRITTEN CORRECTION] ‘of’ people from the old Crown Unit.BE: It was the Crown Film Unit and also the people who got a start directing were people from, a lot of them were connected with the Crown […]