[…]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[…]
[…]don't know how much to do, so much in a comparatively short period, but still, I did. Ed Goran stick had been asked to form a film unit for the newly nationalized surface transport, industries, railways, canals, roads. What have you got? And was given a lot of power and a lot of budget and told to g[…]
[…]nking relations with pilots. The ministry got on to Shell, and profoundly objected to the fact that they made a film every year. And they wanted international publicity for their aeroplanes. And my last film or film, I had the rather bitter situation of having to make copies on my own budget for 22 […]
[…] £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 […]
[…]e are half memories. [00:17:43] So this was one year leading up to the war. I remember various other things like my brother had been in the International Brigade. They arrived back at Victoria Station. I didn't see them, it was a day that I knew or heard they were coming back and I understand h[…]
[…]membership up for years afterwards.RF: Well if we know the year you were born, it could be traced because all the records are at Berkhampstead in the National Film and Television Archive, so you joined when, in '42 would you say?LK: YesRF: Well if anyone wants to they can go through the '42 applicat[…]
[…]n the films he was in.Well, after reverse Oh yes. at Riverside the dreaded note came back and said you've left the craft Film Unit where you're doing national service will you please report production national national service again so Icalled them up called a marshal and remember, we were sending M[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] through labs or through somewhere. Well, I decided not on labs, so I went and gained, well technical knowledge. I went as a senior technician to the national coward research unit under Dr Bronowski, where I then, again utilized all my cinematic skills, again as a caring man, mostly working on very […]
[…]ow, produced it anyway. And he pleaded with me to do this film and I said, "Well I don't know, I've got things to think about." He'd been told by the National Film Finance Corporation that if he didn't get me he wouldn't get the money, and he didn't get the money. I mean that's stupid isn't it? But […]
