[…] was fantastic to hear these two guys talking about the early days, you know? One was Australian but British, and the other - I don't mean British by nationality but British music hall performer - and Harry Langdon the old time comic.Rodney Giesler: And of course he was vaudeville, wasn't he, before[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] days too we used to follow the Lincoln with the National, and used to go from Lincoln across to... Alan […]
[…]now, if you know how fast horses go. Anyway, so we wondered whether we'd got a scoop or not. In those days too we used to follow the Lincoln with the National, and used to go from Lincoln across to...Alan Lawson: ...AintreeJohn Turner: ...Aintree in a race train, they used to run a race train then, […]
[…]Yes, there was the hell of a blood row, we stopped shooting one time, and they came to the rescue, the film finance people. Bloody marvellous.SC: The National Film Finance Corporation.CC: Do you know by the way there were two films from the school which are, one is Veronica Cruse which is Miguel Per[…]
[…]wler 38:09 I agree with that. Yes, they couldn't behave. It's misspent and it's, ah,Keith Ewart 38:14 well, it's misspent the National Health Service. That's the trouble everywhere. The trouble is, where do you slash? But, I mean, I quite agree, but it's not in misread. There[…]
[…]as decanted up to Queen Margaret Drive and I stayed there for six years but the one thing about that job, even though I was surrounded by cameras and films, they did cater for the amateur and they also catered for the semi-professional. I remember in the window we had Bolex 16mm cameras and Arriflex[…]