Cyril Howard

[…]sp; you 1 re anything of a cricketer like I am you'd like to know that K. S. Ranjit Sinji who was a Crown Prince, cu, Indian prince, he played for Sussex and England, he lived here, and obviously an extremely r[…]

Philip Leacock

[…]d some preparatory work on a couple of things that didn't, that didn't go ahead. So I really knew most of them. No, John had by that time had started Crown Film Unit and I went in there straight away. Yes, immediately. Down at Beaconsfield.Stephen Peet: That was what, about '46 or something of that […]

Bessie Bond (née Span)

[…]was Margaret I went with and Liam Cloar because Liam was one of the producers, you know, and his wife, and Cyril Franko was the director who worked atCrown at the time, and it was him who invited us all to his father’s party. So I went there, ofcourse everybody was there, Shelley, Peter Finch and Pe[…]

John Wiles

[…]vis American. He used to be asleep behind the set half the time this was going on. And of course, if you worked after half past seven, you got half a crown meal allowance, I think it was, which was half Korean is what 30 P now is in something like that. About half a crown meal now. So that was quite[…]

Gerry Fisher

[…]wson  26:51  it had thatGerry Fisher  26:52  kernel blood there Yeah, mate kernel blood real kernel all about the stealing of the crown jewels you know, Alan J's he was the second and he was he was a nice man. ip lipscombe was the script reducer script reimagined. He wrote it I t[…]

Cyril Page

[…]Krampser[?] I think his name was, I don't know...Anyway, errm...he had this colour. He was processing colour, and they shot it in the studio...in the Crown Theatre...Alan Lawson: Oh yes?Cyril Page: The Crown Theatre in Wardour Street...Alan Lawson: Yes, just across the road...Cyril Page: Anyway, we […]

David Watkin

[…] lit with a Brute through the window outside – in order to do this he had to dress the room white to reflect the light; DW talks about Frank Brice of Crown Film Unit and Brice’s involvement with Night Mail; British Transport provided him with training for his later career; working with Ralph Keene o[…]

Dicky Leeman

[…]e was trying to form, which eventually became the ACT - Association of Cinema Technicians. And at least half a dozen said, "Right," and it was half a crown. We had two and sixpence to join. [Break in recording] And so we paid our half a crown. And if I remember rightly, I think it was at least a yea[…]
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