[…]n Glim can't remember damn funny name for a young girl, Jean de Cassilas or John de Cassilis was directed by Maurice Jay Wilson for Grand National, and it was photographed by Freddie Ford. And the continuity, the continuity girl is called Dot Forman And Firstly, I have to say is th[…]
[…]mbargo on assistance watching other people's rushes. That was a studio rule which I happen to transgress at one time and got severely hauled over the coals for the discipline at Ealing was exactly that of a public school.SPEAKER: M1So one was I since I'd been to a public school I knew exactly how to[…]
[…]scene, how they organized the newsreels, and the effect that it had.Speaker 1 12:11 Well, the thing that I knew was I was a member of the National Union of Journalists,Roy Fowler 12:21 and I came into, we're talking now, of when, what issues,Speaker 1 12:24 the be[…]
[…] £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 little […]
[…] and newsreel of course, he used to film the Grand National every year and the Cup Final and tell stories […]
[…] pay; industrial relations; role of the ACTT; the Newsreel Agreement; National Union of Journalists. Section 4: World War Two and […]
[…]alk about – when did you join up?HF: I was called up in 1944. But not the air force. I opened up the letter, I nearly fainted – I was called into the coal mines as a Bevin Boy. I did everything I knew to get out of it, paying a solicitor in Brixton, but although they sympathised with me they said “i[…]
[…] the ledgers on an accounting machine.[OI] So you learnt, you had learnt to type had you or did they...?Mm, no. They had a school. It was run, mm, by National Accounting Machines.[OI] Ah, ha.And they, they sort of had a training school in the bank.[OI] Yes.And we learnt, we were all trained there, y[…]
