[…]ng films and so on which one would see in in routine cinema programmes as a filler or short in between the main films. Or or the documentaries of the GPO Film Unit and so on which I wasn't particularly conscious of at the time.ColinMofatt: So Free Cinema was a series of programmes by people who were[…]
[…]y accept successful PR job by glisten and this is what prism really was good at, was getting funds, getting the Empire marketing boards, and then the GPO Film Unit to stop happening. creating these sort of loci and building mean people like Steven talents, and so forth, sort of like general barrier […]
[…]ly when didn't only meet at work, but when met socially at the pub around the corner in, down in Soho And Soho  of course, was the was where the GPO Film Unit worked. And a lot of the documentary producerdthe time work. They're all associated with them. So that was the sort of focal point,Steph[…]
[…] And he rang me up and said, When are you going to be called up j? So I said, What about yours time? Oh, he said, Well, would you like to work at the GPO. I said, Oh my God, we don't have to do. He said well, we look we're looking for some sort of young assistants, you know. So I said, Well, what ab[…]
[…]nema and never forgotten it. And because I couldn't get into the theatre I decided to try the people who'd made Night Mail. And I found out where the GPO Film Unit were, they were in Soho Square. So I went there and I was told they'd moved to Denham. And I got the name of the woman who was responsib[…]
[…]aughs]Pat Jackson: So, she then wrote to Kingsley Wood and said, "Do you think you could help my brilliant young son of sixteen to get a job with the GPO Film Unit?" So, he wrote to Grierson, and Grierson wrote back and said, "I'm quite prepared to come along if you come along, I'll give you an inte[…]
[…]ion of the General Post Office Film Unit, which made nightmare amongst 120 other films and became When the war came, the war broke up, broke out, the GPO Film Unit became the nucleus of crowds. On the official civilian Film Unit, and it was going it was a going concern. Before the service film units[…]
[…]Bangkok. He was fairly nutty then, he's now completely, we got back and he thought it would upset people to have a slate on the front. So we had a pingpong bat with a light which flashed and buzzed which was held at the front. It often didn't work. So not only did we not have any slates, we hadn't e[…]
[…]um running on a 16 millimetre Kodascope projector that I owned was probably a present from my father. The first film was Warning Shadows and an early GPO documentary The Coming of the Dial. The society develops slowly and eventually the watch committee permitted performances in cinemas on a Sunday o[…]
[…]en it started but in 1932.Peter de Normanville  24:35  Yes, it's sort of about the earliest birth of the documentary movement. In fact, the GPO was definitely before Shell. But I think Shell was before the Crown Film unit to be formed.Sarah Erulkar  24:52  But Peter was telling t[…]
