[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] was the Enemy Property Act, passed in 1953 and that gave us, gave the Museum rather, the right to exploit the film, the German film on behalf of the Crown, certainly within Britain. And I think within the Commonwealth nations all of whom had been part, of course, of the conflict. So that footage wa[…]
[…]n, sometimes we finished at eight o'clock sometimes finished at midnight at eight o'clock. New had a supper allowance, which was in those days half a crown. And so consequently, you went up the road or you had a bar of chocolate or you took, went up the road of the road and head to the pub and had a[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]n’t work out.Which year did you see Volkov [ph]?’44. I’d taken another year at university, so I was twenty-one when I went to see him. I also went to Crown Film Unit, which was, you know, and I got an answer a week later from Shell accepting me. So my life would have been very different if it had co[…]
[…] 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 […]
[…] war started he got me in to look after the Crown Film Unit. Sid Cole: He remembered all those years back? Edward […]
