[…]with Japan finished also. And from there on, it was really a matter of serving one's time out. And I had become an instructor and the one of the REME instructional establishments and was eventually given what was called a Class B release which got me out earlier in order to go back to college, where[…]
[…]of a stock and obviously the lens what can be done. And also, many times, if I had any sort of tricky work, I would keep a separate magazine and give instructional laboratory to develop it to hand test. And I told men who I happen to know very well. I made my point to working very close with laborat[…]
[…] got in, I’m afraid it was a bit of a fiddle, in so much as I found someone who was the a producer at the Colonial Office Film Unit. They made films, instructional films, documentaries for the Colonies. There’s a bit of antiquated word isn’tit. And it was an old guy called George Pearson. Q: Famous […]
[…]ng electric auto. Motives you cannot imagine on the title anything being more boring, but in actual fact, it won a prize BAFTA that year for the best instructional film, or something like that. But it fascinated me because the director was a man called Ken Fairburn. Oh, yes, who? I mentioned another[…]
[…]y Marshall Page 49That’s the winding up, I see. Alright. Well, then I was only going to say that the hierarchy of Bruce Woolfe, that he was GBI [Gaumont British Instructional], Diagram Films, then Scientific Films and his brother, Willy Woolfe, had something to do with Scientific Films. An[…]
[…]sil's. And I can't quite remember the order of events, but I certainly at some point along the line there, I did some work for, I think it was called GB-I. What was that...Stephen Peet: Gaumont British Instructional.Philip Leacock: Yes. And they were very anti-union. Now that's the first thing I rea[…]
[…]all went down to volunteer and then John Mitchell was accepted into the Navy, the other chap editing he didn’t get taken in because he was doing some instructional things. In fact I think he went into the Army film unit as well. Anyway, I, when I went up to the studio they said I’d got t[…]
[…]rd's Bush when I went there and I worked for Gainsborough Pictures, which were the sort of 'feature' arm. There was, also on the same floor there was GB News, and then there was G-B I.Kitty Wood : Hmm.Jim Connock : Now were you in the cutting rooms from the beginning or were you on the production si[…]
[…]film after the fire, justly so. Another thing at Welling, Welling had been completely equipped with arc lighting lamps while they were run by British Instructional Films, came the talkies these light were absolutely useless because they howled and whistled and hummed and so at Welling there were cra[…]
