[…]ast ones. Was Scrooge, and then I went to Goodbye Mr. Chips. I was at Sherborne on contract there, and Caroline lamb, many other the big productions, Oliver and everyone, I mean, apart from the hard work, I can't say that there's anyone I haven't enjoyed great and down at Bray studios, you really go[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 54 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-10-01Interview Date: 1988-08-22Interviewer: Sidney ColeInterviewee: Jack RockettTape 1, Side 1 Roy Fowler: Copyright 1988, ACTT History Project. The interview is with Jack Rockett at Glebelands on 22 August […]
[…]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[…]
[…]into space and wondered what I was going to do. And then I was invited to join Yorkshire, and I had lovely ski lovely ideas that it would be very pleasant to live in Yorkshire. But of course, I pointed out to them that if they had me up there, it would mean enormous train fairs as I came backwards a[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
