[…]bsp; How did… Oh, well because it was a chap whose name I’ve forgotten who was a shark fisherman who had a terribly popular programme of sort of general knowledge questions, quiz in Australia. And I think he just asked the Encyclopaedia Britannica if they could supply him with a hundred q[…]
[…]e and we haven't got one in Ireland." And he said, "I'll show the lads - you'll be all right when you go over there, you come under the Transport and General Worker's Union." And he said, "We're opening up in September 1935." So anyway I had to go out to Dublin to see him, went out and saw him and s[…]
[…] with a list of shots to shoot and and shortly missing bits and Charles invented a lot of matte shots that matte paintings had to be done for and was generally the person who pulled the whole film together without any credit whatsoever. Yes. Anyway the film was finished and it was beautifully done b[…]
[…] one film, for the four days plus the one film, yes.Sydney Samuelson: And - I think then that that's interesting, that all those years ago was it the general rule that Ealing did not have people on staff like Gainsborough at Lime Grove had people on staff and Pinewood had people on staff.Erica Maste[…]
[…]as 1941 and I went to all the local schools and so forth and then progressed to what was called thenSouthgate County Grammar School. So it was just a general old education. Didn’t like itmuch, but I was very average. I got average marks in everything; I came average, halfway down the class and all t[…]
[…]f the picture. It was terrible ready and we were left thirsty with the original bones with one of just one or two references to to this dream of this general nebulae. I think they sold it to Paramount who then set about re editing it yes again. Anyway, but that time I was long gone. I don't want to […]
[…]d at the Guild, we had this wonderful system of time logs where you had to put every hour of your eight hour day against a production number. And, or general, if you weren't working. And you see I could write and I could read and I can edit and the guild used me and all these faculties. And one day,[…]
[…] and he changed it to his mother's name. Well, my name was Craig, but I was damned if father was going to get any credit. The people talking about it generally say "He didn't want to . . . . (something) on his father's name and I said, well a lot of good that would do me in films, simplifying four c[…]
[…] married. I think I'm correct in saying that. In 1934, the family moved to London where Jennings was introduced to john Grierson, founder of the GPO, General Post Office Film Unit. He joined the unit as far as I can make out as an editor, and was quickly designing and directing documentary films. I […]
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