[…] Alan Lawson: What are your reactions to Empire Marketing Board, Crown Film Unit, GPO Film Unit, these various other units? Sid Cole: […]
[…]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[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…] DA: Yes it did. JL: Possibly as big as the Crown Film Unit, 100+!DA: I can give you no idea but we […]
[…]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 […]
[…]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 […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] - Dora Wright. And I think she went to the Crown Film Unit. Roy Fowler: She did, yes. E.M. Smedley-Aston: Anyhow, she […]