[…]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[…]
[…]talk to. "The Overlanders" was a fine production. I gather, he was a very difficult director to work for but he'd had a distinguished career with the GPO Film Unit and subsequently the Crown Film Unit, I think. Roy Fowler 37:59 Yes. Yeah, I'm not sure, I see your point. I'[…]
[…]and beauty in the theatre and doing the jolly things that weren't acting at work. So the war of a node that bargain and I had been very interested in films, which had been really one of the things although music was the principal here, and I'd also been very interested in films, I can remember produ[…]
[…]s did some work and things at the BBC didn’t he before that?ROY FOWLER: That was later. He came from Marconi.HARRY MILLER: Atkins came from the GPO, and he built the telephone exchange at the studios at the time. John Reynders who was the musical director at the time he used to be the co[…]
[…]ld prepare”, and he was very worried about HAL, the voice of the computer, and there was a very good boffin there who he said why don't you go to the GPO, they had some sort of scrambling device which they used for testing transatlantic cables, distorting the voice, see if they’ll treat it.[40.00min[…]
[…]e was on it too.John Legard: Oh right, yes, hmm.Peggy Gick: And we worked on that for...Edward left it...he left I think to go to [what was then] the GPO Film Unit. Mac and I stayed on until they'd finished, and then I started a job...John Legard: You say 'Mac'...this is [Scott MacGregor]?Peggy Gick[…]
[…]t time, I was involved with films. I was laying on facilities for night mail, which was shot on the LMS,Unknown Speaker 15:14 shot by the GPO Film Unit.Speaker 3 15:15 Yes, right, that's quite right. Brenner was the PR man, he wasn't the film, and grison was the chap, because[…]
