[…]jobs, I flew up to Inverness to play a film there, James Robertson Justice the actor, he was on the plane.SC: When did you start doing things for the National Film Theatre?EB: Well years ago, Florence was the Musical Director for some years. When poor old Arthur Duly died, he had Parkinson disease h[…]
[…] TD: What were you… what was the first film that you were a production assistant or production manager? AY: I think that was at National Studios, and I was working at that time on, I can’t remember which one it was, it was either Charlie Chan or it was the Douglas Fairbanks ser[…]
[…]t 'Forever England' - but something like that, which was one of these terribly patriotic things, I think...Sidney Cole: Not 'This England' at British National.Kay Mander: No. Again, I should have looked all this up. I never know what I want to look up, I know where it all is. That was all shot down […]
[…]ended on the cinema I suppose.Jack Rockett: Oh yes it depends yes because you had Grade A, Grade B, Grade C. You had Grade A, Grade B, Grade C in the national agreement.Sidney Cole: Yes. But do you remember what the Grade A figure was for instance for a projectionist?Jack Rockett: To be really hones[…]
[…]s earlier, he had been connected with it at some point. Aubrey of course had been in the industry before the war, I think he was secretary of British National, as far as I remember, something like that. But they both came out of the forces. They had made one film before I joined them, which was[…]
[…]lt of a motorboat race. And that began my being terribly interested in editing.I worked on a few more pictures at Ealing and the went to British International Pictures at Elstree which is still there and still Very much as they were in those days. That happened out of the blue. One of the people I'd[…]
