[…]um to the other. People would - you could hear them gasping, "Oh my God!" They didn't know what was coming next. But then of course was the wonderful Fox opening, with all speakers on...Alan Lawson: Yes, yes.David Robson: At ninety feet a minute, you know. High quality sound - never heard anything l[…]
[…]st ones. He then transferred, to myknowledge, in about 1927-28 to Pathé and was a camera man for Pathé Gazette and then, whensound started, he joined Fox Movie Tele-news. Now, or then, British Movietone is. He went tothe States to learn the technique of sound coverage and came back, continued to be […]
[…] one or two pictures. I think Walsh was in Twentieth Century - do you remember a company called Twentieth Century, before it became Twentieth Century Fox? They made about eight films. And one of them was called On the Bowery [N.B. The Bowery]. And I think Bert was in that, playing a piano in a broth[…]
[…]e, he took that over from somebody.Did he, mm?Yes. But he’d, he was, and he was, and he did two or three features after that.AL: Yes.He did one about fox hunting.The ‘Belstone Fox’?That’s it, yes, yes. And I think he was Dan Coates [ph 37:30] I think. He obviously, he obviously liked women editors.A[…]
[…] very small. And then what happened was I had been working for some time on a screenplay with Steve Zellian of Falcon and The Snowman. And we were at Fox and maybe as a result of Honky Tonk Freeway and everything it got put into turnaround and I could see that we weren't going to make it and I came […]
[…]interesting thing … that was sort of odd thing, the combination of the Jews and the Arabs working together. The Jews represented by Twentieth Century Fox and the Arabs, Dodi Fayed. And the interesting thing was that at one point when the wardrobe had overspent on budget or something, Fox were going […]
[…] Herbert virtually ran the studios then. And there I was until we were doing a film which Freddie Young was photographing with Johnny Wilcox and Ivan Foxwell his crew. And I went home one Friday night and discovered on Monday morning that the bloody studio had burnt down. So everybody went off in di[…]
[…]of them took shares in the company, and they've done very well with them. And when we went out to rank a man, of course, he eventually he, he got the Fox Studios and he took shares in universal. And with that, of course, he got a lot of marvellous films, they were the Judy Garland film, not necessar[…]
