[…]niques of high speed cinematography. So again, I added a little To my knowledge, and having done that, I felt an urge to go back to East Africa. So I headed once again for East Africa, this time for the colonial office, but again, hoping to get eventually into the colonial Film Unit. I actually beca[…]
[…] and of course, what we didn’t reveal to, to the head of, of Zoomount [ph 1A 09:42] at that time […]
[…] was the trouble you see. Dr Kalmus, who was the head of Technicolor, his wife, she used to turn up […]
[…]ould be and I think, from that moment (it was a very unique programme actually - it was a live lunchtime programme. It went out every day, which was ahead of its time indeed), but I always remember sitting in the audience at being absolutely amazed at what went on behind the scenes! The cameras, the[…]
[…]. And I got a very quick response back from Pinewood saying, Yes, could I go in for an interview? I went in for an interview. Cyril Crowhurst was the head of sound at that point, and he was away. So his his first deputy ,deputy head was Alan Whatley who also lived on my estate in Denham. And I used […]
[…] meant that when the dialogue in fact dried up you could actually cut it and give the prompt and it started again. And you raced...Now you’re racing ahead, you’re leaping ahead.Oh sorry. [Laughter] Moira Armstrong DRAFT. Tape 1 Side AMm, out of university?Yes.In to The Perth Rep?Yes.And then wh[…]
[…]e called producers at BBC Television way before the war but that's disputed. A man called Osoman, Ozzy, who was my immediate boss, oh Emily Watts was head of the department, I don't know what they call, Cecil was HTelP head of television programs I don't know what Ozzy was called but they all had th[…]
[…]the cinema. The magic of the beam of light coming out you couldn't see where it came from but I knew that when I after seeing a few films I turned my head to try and find out where that being came from. I was hooked. I think it has also to do with the fact that at that time of course throughout the […]
[…] Wright was so amazed that I'd got through the police that she - she was immediately very taken with me, and got me to see Ian Dalrymple who was head of the unit. The Crown Film Unit I think it was then called, it had been changed from The GPO Film Unit. And he was also very taken with my initi[…]
[…]illiams : Oh yes, yes, yes. Not as high as the sound stages were, usual factory sort of height you see, I suppose, what, 20 feet. But none of the overhead gantries and running tackle and all that sort of thing, that came with sound studios, we had none of that.Rodney Giesler : Were the sets more lik[…]
