[…];11:10 Yeah, if I may suggest, we move on to the middle of strong Midlands connection with your father. I remember as a kid on listening to the national radio and hearing the niqab interpreter. AfterUnknown Speaker 11:25 leaving the RCMP, he graduated from the air in what you just […]
[…], putting the microphones away in the sound department and the then chief, Red Turtle and I was there until September 1949 when I had to go and do my National Service which I did in the RAF. I went in for 18 months but then I was home on a 72 hour pass and I had been to see a Chelsea Arsenal e[…]
[…] wasJohn P Hamilton 5:38 it from that job, then? You did? We both have an area. I was ahead of you because I'm older you are, but you did national service.Gerald Chambers 5:49 Yes, I was in the, in the Air Force from 1945 to 1948. I had been at Newton chambers studying accoun[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]films. We always had to come back and rebuilt the smallest bit that you could get away with.BA: What studio was that in.BE: It must have been British National Studio at Elstree I think. Yes.BA: Do you remember how long the production schedule was.BE: It was about 3 weeks.BA: 3 weeks.BE: No, I expect[…]
[…]ve years it was a shot-by-shot analysis.MW: I’m sure. Now, in that period in the early seventies you were in parallel with the British Film Institute National Film and Television Archive presumably.I'm trying to remind myself who was actually Head of the National Film and Television Archive at that […]
[…]nk all the time. And of course must be on a tripod. Well my first great chance as I called it then, was in 1912, when he said I could go to the Grand National at Aintree. Well I remember that very well, great excitement for me, even to stay away from home one night. And er, we went up and was put in[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]s of the studio, you see? ROY FOWLER: It was one large stage?HARRY MILLER: Yes, well they had two very large. This was British International Pictures, Elstree, and you’d have three units, a Hitchcock and, I can’t remember at the moment, Monty Banks, Wilcox, all the old names that y[…]
[…]bsp;3:38 between two cinema, yes, it was. It was a two, I think it was a 2000 foot can, because it had the adverts, the local adverts, the National adverts, and the pathway news. And the two cinemas being both owned by kinemas East, Anglia shared it, and so the programs were timed, so it […]
