[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]he date? We’re talking about the death of the King, which was 1952, wasn’t it? The Coronation was ’53, I think it was about six months before she was crowned. So I’m trying to put our positions together.DS: Where I was. John and I had met by that time, and having great fun with other boys.At Broadca[…]
[…]nicians at the audio, and we had a stem Harris engineer who was an ex theatre man. And we were coming up to showing the coronation film The green has crowned. And he said to us that we should do some special in the way of presentation. And we put our heads together and we set up on a plan. Now we ha[…]
[…]n a little film on education?” which I did, and that was my first film, and I got ten pounds for the making of it! Margaret Thomson: That was at Crown was it?Jean Anderson: That was at Crown.Margaret Thomson: And Jean, am I right to say that that film was given a theatrical release?[…]
[…]lectric and we had to have an enormous truck for location work and he also had one of the dubbing theatres at Pinewood. The other one was used by the Crown Film Unit the RCA and the one we had we shared with the RAF. And we went out on manoeuvres and did various rather abortive films actually, for s[…]
[…] two strip colour system from America, it was half a crown a foot to be processed, it was an overall […]
[…]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 […]
