Freddie Francis

[…] for Dickie Attenborough called Young Winston. Because Dicky wanted everything to look like as if it was in those XXX pages of the London Illustrated News. Gerry came up with this thing where by there was a sort of curved plastic sheet in front of the lens and above it was a light box which shone li[…]

Gerald Chambers

[…]chain from Penn pushing to chopping down trees.John P Hamilton  11:15  Wonderful. Wonderful. Now, did you continue the theatrical theme and newsy? Well, the theatrical,Gerald Chambers  11:21  theatrical theme and in New Zealand, started up again when I moved up to Auckland, and j[…]

Ted (Robert Edward) Newman

[…]er took an interest in me because I've got a natural talent for architectural drawing. And he asked me to do a drawing for the Birmingham Mayor lotto newspaper competition. I did the drawing at home. I no way I was going to do it at school. And I know this drawing was designed for a cinema and he di[…]

Peter Stroud

[…]lds: But Peter tell me, if I can just go back a moment...Peter Stroud: Hmm...Jim Shields: The Rank Organisation, I remember the old stories about the newsreel being shared with the Odeon and Gaumont and all that...Peter Stroud: We were very lucky in as much as we had our own copy.Jim Shields: Ah, ri[…]
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