[…]ked on a number of cinema commercials and then the Olympics in 1948; SS staged the runner passing through Athens with the flame; Castleton Knight (GB News) produced the film and was backed by J. Arthur Rank; SS was at Westminster Abbey for the coronation with Technicolor cameras; SS worked on Treasu[…]
[…]to Remember'.C. D. Oh, 'A Night to Remember' yes.R. F. O. K. Well coming om down the list ”Lost in the Legion” .C. D. The story about that was in the newspapers because it was the first time that the actual desert had been photographed as reality but built in the studio. And the sand was supplied by[…]
[…]at was taken when he gave the baby to me and I held it, gazing at him with adoration. And it just so happened that this picture was picked out by the newspapers, because it was such a scene that was talked about. And in every single newspaper sent to me, from Spain and France and everything, there w[…]
[…]tel, and this actor, Jack decided to bring his family over for Christmas. We got the room ready and they were late, I went and asked if there was any news and the second time I went the man at the desk said that the wife had died on the plane on the way. It was just one of those films.John Legard&nb[…]
[…]y for...Bernard Vorhaus: Money for Speed, that's right. I also used him on the following film, The Ghost Camera. I had seen some unusual cutting on a newsreel, was it either British Movietone or um...Sidney Cole: Yes - no, he was Gaumont British.Bernard Vorhaus: Gaumont British that's right. And er […]
[…]e of the studio, when you first heard about it, and how it was received?UB: Well It’s a bit hazy, I thought I might be in Ireland, I heard some news when my brother and I were in Ireland, he was recuperating from the bad burns he he’d received, he had a telephone message, I think or a telegram[…]
[…]s the first one I did. And that was terribly funny, we had a long, very expensive crowd shot on, on Waterloo Station with Arthur Askey walking with a newspaper up to a kiosk. And six weeks later in the studio we had the close ups, you see, revamped.Yes.Elizabeth Furse DRAFT. Tape 1 Side B61Elizabeth[…]
[…] you had 23 minutes and a half of the short film, you had two hours and a half of the big film, and you had whatever the balance was made up with the news. So it had to be exactly the right length. And there were one or two bits that broke my heart to cut out of it but they had to go. I did that in […]
[…]h yes just sorry just our witness they come. I come I see Ken who's a news director actor and director private tutor. He did some rather good films and&nbs[…]
