[…]w. [Laughter]2. Start of career at SheppertonRP: My father knew Norman Lee who was directing films in those days.SC: He was directing at BIP [British International Pictures] and places.RP: Yes, he was quite a well-known director. He was making a film at Riverside and so I went there as a runner, gen[…]
[…]nnett's. Anyway I went up to San Francisco in 1925 - and I worked for this little outfit called The Gershwin Pictures Corporation which was up in the Golden Gate Park area. It was a very small studio, not purpose-built, and they made cheap second features there.Roy Fowler: Ah hmm.Eddie Dryhurst: It […]
[…]mall advertising, commercial documentary films. But they've all been not things basically, oh, they've been made for companies like Saab and caravans International, basically, documentary films. Oh, I made one for Shell, which is long film I again, went round the world to make a film called load on […]
[…]oh, ecstatic! And I got a special letter from the Air Force about that.Sidney Cole: Do you still have the letter?Tilly Day: Oh yes, I got a Golden Leaf, or whatever you call it.Sidney Cole: Oh great, good.Tilly Day: Above my Sergeant Major one.Alan Lawson: Mentioned in dispa[…]
[…]eased to get away from it,was it then that you got into contact with the academic world and theInternational Film School?Yes, well I left the industry for a very short time and wen[…]
[…]id at £3 a week on the Monday for Shell.AL: Where were you based.BM: Shellmex House -AL : St Tand .BM: The She 11 Film Unit was really part of She 11 International and should have been with Shel 1 in the City but they couldn't have a cinema there or cutting rooms with nitrate rooms. So they had a li[…]
[…]o delegates. We paid our own fare to Leningrad, on the boat and back, and all the hospitality was provided by the Soviet trade unions. While I was in Moscow, I received a telegram from the BBC offering me a job and this gave me enormous satisfaction, I hardly stopped laughing about it. When I got ba[…]
[…]he puritan he was but I thought it was a very good comment.Roy Fowler: Did you stay with Ealing to the end.Peter Tanner: No I didn't get my golden handshake because I could see the end was nigh, I was at MGM, I did two pictures at MGM and then I got an offer to do a picture with Robert Ald[…]
[…]came of that so I saidyou better write to him again. So she did and to cut a long story short aletter came saying would I go and see John Corfield at Golden Square, whichwas British National headquarters, I think it's now where the Granadabuilding is. I didn't know, what for so one November day in 1[…]
[…]that we had the facilities we needed you see insofar as mounting the Agincourt sequences were concerned.  Because clearly having come out of the Globe Theatre into what's known as opening up extension it's no good doing it half cock. And therefore, the only way we could possibly see clearly how[…]
