[…]what others, there were about half a dozen at the most of small documentary film units belonged to it. I think it was called Federation of Shorts and Documentaries.Yes, that’s right, it was, yes.[1:09:37]And what was the name of the man who was the secretary of it? I can’t remember hisname. I can re[…]
[…] various features during the 1930s including The Amateur Gentleman (1936) and Midshipman Easy (1935) often as assistant to Carrick. During […]
[…] with the political documentary of the 1930s with modern television documentaries. BECTU History Project - Interview No. 118 [Copyright BECTU […]
[…]dn’t stay, and James came out from England and took over the direction. He became a good friend and subsequently Bill and he worked on many films and documentaries together, some of which I was involved with and some not. At the time, we didn’t really think, ‘Oh, this is our life-changing experience[…]
[…]did it's own catering, it didn't do it's own supplies or fuel or anything. That was all done by the civil service, called the Naval Store Department, and my father was in it and finally got to the point when he was head of it. But his work took him around the various dockyards, from Chatham, Portsmo[…]
[…]ept that Shell made scientific films and ethnographical films. And we made these, I suppose, social documentaries. And those films continued to cause a bit of a splash.“We Are the Lambeth Boys” actually&nb[…]
[…]d, I became president of Mummers, the Cambridge Dramatic Society, but I still don’t know why films and I still don’t know why documentary.Did you see documentaries at that time?No, not many. But, you know, I mean it’s the usual thing I suppose, I wanted to do good for the world, I wanted to go […]
[…]Russell who sort of moved very very early in their careers before…Yes and they didn’t go back really.Yes. They are the exception.And they’d also done documentaries before…Yes because their background was rather sort of film…British transport films.Yes umm.They’d come from a kind of different… but Ja[…]
[…]y disapproved of but I think was probably very good from Shell's point of view, it was very much indirectly a film unit.AL: About technique of making documentaries in those early days, was there a technique.BM: The theory was the film you made was only part of it, it was the raw material of which yo[…]
[…]t as Sound Recordists, Editors and so on and some of the people involved in turning the raw footage procured by the Army and Air Force cameramen into documentaries so that’s quite a useful resource for some of the people who might be listening to this interview as well. MW: Absolutely. Another […]
