[…]there therefore offered a film by the COI. It was a film about motorcycling, British motorcycles, and the departments were the Board of Trade and the Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office. I think it's it's cold. And we got Colin Dean, who was a director of the crown film in us and Aust[…]
[…]elped to project Jabra to the near the front of the cultural scene was funny moment when it was had to be seen by the Minister of information and the foreign minister. Because all films are made up of a very close supervision. Every shot had to be every sequence had to be approved before it could be[…]
[…]ur imagination shot in the morning and just sort of pull it out of the bag somehow, but it was a wonderful place to work.RF: Was it unusual to have a foreign location, because I’m sure Hamburg would have counted as foreign.VG: Yes, it was unusual to have a foreign [location] because they’d never don[…]
[…]led Primrose was responsible for the film department. And he was a we were really at the job at that time was not making films so it was making foreign versions of films which have been produced by by whoever I mean Dunlop shell or anybody else. not shell because in fact, shell did[…]
[…] Smedley-Aston: Oh God no. I mean he was in a foreign country let's face it. Just over for the one […]
[…] went to private schools, they were all state educated, but I mean one was able to live very comfortably and do the things from wanted to do and have foreign holiday and things like that. The only thing I think Mick resented was the fact that he thought we got married far too young. Now a very extra[…]
[…]war.E.M. Smedley-Aston: Oh did he?Roy Fowler: No sign of that then? His political...?E.M. Smedley-Aston: Oh God no. I mean he was in a foreign country let's face it. Just over for the one film and staying at the Dorchester and things. He was probably as disinterested in British politi[…]
[…]ge, of course, because the four times I was actually at Cambridge, we had regular showings a few times to Ember films, which would include, you know, foreign in British documentaries, and of course, also feature films. I had started my film education. I didn't know very much about it before that. Bu[…]
[…]ped, unless you were reading science, medicine, or something of direct help to the war effort. So one knew that one was going to be called up reading foreign languages at eighteen and a half, so at seventeen my old father met a bloke in a pub, whose auntie and uncle who knew a chap down in Plymouth,[…]
