[…]es, it's sort of about the earliest birth of the documentary movement. In fact, the GPO was definitely before Shell. But I think Shell was before the Crown Film unit to be formed.Sarah Erulkar 24:52 But Peter was telling the story before you arrived that cause it was rather sad was that […]
[…] St where we also did run, the second camera course was run from there. The chaps used to march up from Marylebone Hotel and then they decided as the Crown Film Unit was going to Pinewood and there was more room than they wanted, it would be a good idea if the RAF Film Unit and the Army Film Unit jo[…]
[…] up from Marylebone Hotel and then they decided as the Crown Film Unit was going to Pinewood and there was […]
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[…]his happen. And I was sent off to see Sydney Bernstein at the at the at the MOI. And the result of this was that I went down to I was sent off to the Crowne Film Unit and spent well quite a long time there. Well, I worked with some I was still an assistant. And I worked with well which boy you at th[…]
[…]nbsp;Mining Review, I think the first few were made when it first started, which was some when during the war, I think, were made by, would it be the Crown Film Unit? I can probably find out, I can find that out for you, but anyway, and then they became made by Data Films and Data Films were still m[…]
[…]ous objector and survived the scrutiny of the tribunal i was allowed to be registered as such and was kept at the GPO unit which by then was made the Crown film `unit and possibly because of the air raids and we witnessed the first major bombing fire raid on london we had a grandstand view of it and[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]time, even when we moved to Pinewood whichwas the beginning. After that we moved to Curzon St, after that we allmoved to Pinewood to join the RAF and Crown Film Unit. I won't detailanything about that, I, will go back to it. Then I got demobbed. Before Igot demobbed, we had had Muir Mathieson do a l[…]
[…]R: Seventeen; and when you wound the boom out full length you nearly cut your arm off hanging on to this thing, and if you weren’t careful you nearly crowned a leading lady. And of course the lights, the shadows were much more of a problem because it was a big mic and –LH: Was the boom moved about a[…]
