[…]five minutes of getting there, I got a telephone call from the guests to tell me that I got the job. Anyhow, big numbers, the guests was the American director. Anyhow, later, when I really got to know him, I said, Well what happened to the other guy? And he said, Oh, I said he was there for a long t[…]
[…]production manager was also a woman called Deborah Cheshire. And john didn't get on all that well with with the idea, I think, basically ever a woman director. And nevertheless, he, he did his job pretty well, of course, and we functioned very well. We went to all over Switzerland, we went over the […]
[…]r GPO. I said, look around for the the marine hunts must stand. Well, I want an extra day. I said, I'm sorry. You can't have an extra day. So I'm the director. And I said, I know but you know, you've got you've got you're the director, but you've got 2430 people relying on you, you know, you can't j[…]
[…]n’t have the knowledge to argue, I mean I could argue about left and right but no way could I sort of say well that was a terrible performance to the director. Also directors actually in those days were really, they were far better trained technically than they are today, I mean they didn’t come on […]
[…]er: It's Rachael Low's volume of 'The British Film History in the Thirties' and indeed I see, 1930, The Woman from China, Edward G Whiting, producer, director...Eddie Dryhurst: Yeah Whiting was his name, yes.Roy Fowler: Yes. Another one in the thirties, Three Men in a Cart, you made at Isleworth. Di[…]
[…] world was used on it. Toots Camarata was the musical director. And to me a great lady that worked on it […]
[…]s Bill Salter with the pipe.Fred Tomlin: That's Bill Salter and this is um, what's the director's name? Oh...Marcel Varnel, this is Marcel Varnel the director.Bob Allen: Ah hmm. And the cameraman?Fred Tomlin: That's Arthur Crabtree.Bob Allen: Oh gracious! It is, yes?Fred Tomlin: And of course these […]
[…]: which I suppose he did with his tongue in his cheek like Henry.CC: I don’t think that was tongue in cheek. I think Alex really should have stayed a director.SC: Tell me about Elephant Boy. I remember you telling stories about Zolly trying to get as many pieces of elephants, in the cutting round sc[…]
[…] the director's name? Oh...Marcel Varnel, this is Marcel Varnel the director. Bob Allen: Ah hmm. And the cameraman? Fred Tomlin: That's […]
[…]re, just the location. We were in India a 10ng time, it took a long time to get there. Osmond Borradaile was the cameraman. Geoffrery Boothby was the director. That was the whole unit. We didn't take sound or any actors. We went there to shoot all the battle scenes. They were big scale and to do a 1[…]
