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[…] this is a serious business, no fun on this set. John Taylor: Sad story. Does humour playa part Billy Williams: I […]
[…]ver here. Mm, I don’t know how many but of course, they were short films in those days little, little tiny ones, you know. But he had an actor called John Bunny and Flora Finch also he made comedieswith them. But this is really going back to 1910/11/12 sort of thing. Anyway mm...Let’s see. Then he w[…]
[…]d to do some second unit. Things I went on to location. There was a picture called they made me a fugitive, Trevor Howard was in. I went to Devon and john winbot was the operator I think, no, he was gonna focus on I was the loader. And we got snowed in and Tavistock. It was that awful winter 47. And[…]
[…]ox productions, because Herbert virtually ran the studios then. And there I was until we were doing a film which Freddie Young was photographing with Johnny Wilcox and Ivan Foxwell his crew. And I went home one Friday night and discovered on Monday morning that the bloody studio had burnt down. So e[…]
[…]otel. And we could just about afford it. I would get up at six in the morning and go across to the theatre and queue up for seats returns. And we saw John Gielgud in King Lear. I remember queuing up like mad and seeing that and then we also saw Julius Caesar. And that season where Peggy Ashcroft was[…]
[…]s recording is vested in the ACTT History Project, Charles Potter administrator, British Transport films,Unknown Speaker 0:30 Interviewer John legardUnknown Speaker 0:33 recorded on the sixth of June 1989Speaker 2 0:38 in Charles potters home at Godalming side one[…]
[…]k: Yes. And I was - I don't think I was involved when we came back. I had got leave of absence from Strand Films and when I got back Basil Wright and John Taylor asked me to join Realist, so I went to Strand to apologise - and was only to learn that they weren't going to take me back anyway [laughs][…]
[…]es. Well, he said I can pick you up with a dog. We've lived in Edmonton.There you should set up a dish that I will be making the sound head that with John Marlowe and everything tied up together is John Marlowe, Ted. And George.He said I've got stop and think all right. Oh, shit, if you want to star[…]
[…] Highbury Studios in the mid 1940s, as production supervisor under John Croydon. There he oversaw various ‘second features’ (for example, […]
