[…]ve forgotten now. Ah well of course, yes, the greatest fun one was Paddy Leigh Fermor who you may know of. And he is the chap who captured the German general in Crete. Well I was in on the planning of that. I went to a flat Paddy Leigh Fermor had in Cairo when he was on leave, having come out of Cre[…]
[…]days. And then when I came down in 43 I joined Gross's unit and was a general assistant the first real film I suppose we worked on was Donald Alexander's.&[…]
[…]ey were exchanged in a café in Lisbon neutral Lisbon. And a gentleman at the British embassy used to have one table every Thursday whatever it was in general and the German embassy is on the next da y.SPEAKER: F13They put two brown paper parcels down a wallflower to pick up their own lunch and we ha[…]
[…] enjoyable. It wasn't hard work. I used to go to General Council meetings, and I met Anthony Asquith again. He […]
[…]r of us trainees at that particular time.So who did you have with you?Well there was a Mrs Ford, who was, I think was the secretary, the secretary or general sort of help, assistant to Penty.That’s right.And there was somebody called Brian who was local, a big sort of red faced young, Imean he was a[…]
[…] through it. But that's that's of course nerves more than anything. It's not a question of confidence it's a question of nerves.SPEAKER: M9I mean the general question really goes on and on is the important creative relationship between the director and the editor.SPEAKER: M4If there is of course per[…]
[…]r knees, and a safety helmet. The next thing that happened was my election as Shop Steward. Which was enjoyable. It wasn't hard work. I used to go to General Council meetings, and I met Anthony Asquith again. He was President. You remember Sid Cole and Alf Cooper, Charlie Wheeler, Max Anderson, Ivor[…]
[…]ious few, but we had one golden one, which was Kingsley Wood, who at that time was our MP at Eltham and Woolwich and he was then appointed Postmaster General. At the time he was posted Postmaster General, I think Mother saw that a film unit for the post office was being created, so she put two and t[…]
[…] friendly with David Lean, just that we were - he was two years older than I was.John Taylor: What was he doing?Charles Wilder: Well he was a kind of general production runner at that time and then he seemed to disappear to me and er...John Taylor: Didn't you say he was in wardrobe at one time? Did […]
