[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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 […]
[…] 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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] the film industry in 1933 as an assistant at the GPO Film Unit (later the Crown Film Unit). After working on Night […]
[…] the film industry in 1933 as an assistant at the GPO Film Unit (later the Crown Film Unit). After working on Night […]
[…]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[…]
[…]0:22:43] One thing I'd forgotten, it was marvellous... When I was in Oxford Street, where this Marion Greirson's unit was, was every Thursday evening GPO unit had a film evening open to various people that were working round there, where we saw the latest documentaries and the latest Mickey Mouses a[…]
