[…]ls mariners had or hobbies, and it was very popular. It showed in 300 cinemas, perhaps because it was free to the cinemas. It was a 10 minute kind of newsreel magazine.Speaker 1 20:59 Did the coward not have its own Film Unit?Speaker 2 21:03 Not in those days now, only when d[…]
[…]sp;it's ridiculous. RF: Looking into the future how do you see the future. CH: Well I've got good news for the future because although this may sound boastful, I'm happy to say Pinewood is full and it looks&n[…]
[…]ent down into his office, and on saying the he didn't talk to me. He said, sit down before I talk to you. So I thought, Well, that can't be very good news. And then he said, we're going to close these studios down. He said, It's very sad that something's happened that we can't go on any longer. We'v[…]
[…]e'd been a sound recordist before the war, and after the war I bumped into a pal of mine. I was filming the maiden flight of Concorde, and one of the newsreel blokes I knew, I said 'what are you doing?', and he said 'I'm joining the film unit for the BBC ' . I said 'I didn't know they had one', and […]
[…]hey had there. And then of course the two evening shows you see, with a break between. But the feature film was not as long as they are today but the news of course - there was no radio. The public relied on it. Scraps of reel. And anyway, the news and the travel picture, was more than valued. You s[…]
[…]e of those would work on it, it was almost all schoolmasters who 'd bought up 16mm some time ago, it was an absolute cheap jack shambles. The various newsreels who were going to be involved with it refused to have anything to do with it, the only people who were willing were Japanese newsreels and t[…]
[…]went to South Africa.Wyn Ryder: David MacdonaldReggie Beck: A very nice man. I've forgotten what I did with him.Wyn Ryder: This Man is News and The Lost Hours.Reggie Beck: This Man is News, that was very well, Alastair Sim.Wyn Ryder: Then there was Carol Reed, […]
[…]g director sent for me and said do you remember a film called 'The High Command' made by Fanfare Productions. I said indeed I do. He said well I have news for you – here's a cheque for £3. 12s. 7d in full and final settlement of your outstanding account.AT, . Going back to your time at Stoll's tell […]
