[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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'[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] left I think to go to [what was then] the GPO Film Unit. Mac and I stayed on until they'd finished, and […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
