[…]il Phillips took over from him.Yes, ah, ha.Yes. And typical French. Well, it was Pathé Freres then, it was Pathé Gazette in thosedays it wasn’t Pathé News. And you saw them, we used to do, as I say, we used to have The Pathé Gazette and all sections had to be joined by hand.Yes, yes.And I can a[…]
[…] state performance for President Lebrun (the French President). I think the performance we did on television, the Sleeping princess was preceded by a newsreel of the State visit.One of the tiresome things about performing for BBC TV independently and performing for BBC TV as a member of Vic Wells ca[…]
[…]tant man was very experienced, well known camera man, Finch, but I knew of his name, his reputation turned up, and he greeted me with a sort of happy news that he had now become the official, photographer and filmmaker for the King. And a really good friend of his was actually going to be my camera,[…]
[…]he First Days', you see.John Legard: 'First Days', yes, which I remember seeing, not so long ago.Pat Jackson: Er...so that...which is really becoming Newsreel. And then the important one, which is what Harry did, 'London Can Take It'. Well, we know all about that, I won't repeat it.John Legard: That[…]
[…]it 1934. And your father presumably came in that from Cambridge, you're gonna get about that time, I guessCharlotte Jennings 13:01 is our news. at the time just just off to about his death. I said that was just the one pound in the bank, which he had started up married life, […]
[…] mean it was near the change when documentaries were structured because they had to be, because of the equipment, and lighting, etc, etc, to the more newsreely, or vérité type of films when you interposed much less between camera and subject. So we shot this thing, and I cut it, made a 15-minute fil[…]
