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[…]ssistant director to man called Dallas Bower , who was a highly experimental character man who liked to play around. We made a film at the Teddington National Physical Laboratories and one of the things we did was the see the windmill on which they test out models of air aircraft and I remember bein[…]

[…]it still looked kind of garish and colourful. And this was photographed like old masters because Ducky Slocombe used to go and study paintings at the National Gallery before he'd start to shoot things and get ideas about lighting and so forth. Anyway that that all went very successfully and then I g[…]

[…] 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[…]

[…]mbledon, we did a lot of things Haringey because the Haringey Arena was still up there; we did the Horse of the Year Show from there; we did the International show from White City, we really made show jumping.  There was a fellow called Mike Ansell who was boss of the British Horse Society and […]

[…]f.Jimmy Gilbert: It was all with this thought, I think a lot of Scots people, I've noticed it since, Bill Bryden who runs one of the directors at the National theatre, he's head of BBC Scotland now and he's a playwright and he's just obsessed with films. He was telling me coming from Paisley, his fr[…]

[…]nbsp;the youngest moon. Or no not VIP. And I just tried to think a British national yes I tried British national and I think as a studio manager he was&nbs[…]

[…]ded and boring?Alan Lawson: No, no, no, that's fine.David Prosser: He was able to, legally, to stay there, I think, for forty eight hours, under International Law, while he conducted repairs, and after that, he had to put to sea again - otherwise he was breaking International Law. So we had a break […]

 This material is the copyright of the ACTT History Project, Daphne Anstey widow of Edgar, editor with the National Film Board of Canada under her maiden name, Lily, interviewers JohnLegard [JL] and Gloria Sachs [GS], recorded in her home, in Hampstead Garden Suburb, 3 May 1989. Recordist Alan […]

[…] History Project, Daphne Anstey widow of Edgar, editor with the National Film Board of Canada under her maiden name, Lily, […]