[…]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[…]
[…]stuff off the machines quicker. Mainly, it was unusual because it was a terrific urgency in getting news out that one really had to work to get newsreels out onto the screen as quick as possible. I can well remember that although we were using nitrate base, which was a terrifically highly dang[…]
[…]t sense, thick deep carpets, lovely seats to sit in, and for a sixpence in the afternoon, that's what we used to pay, there were two feature films, a newsreel and an hour's stage show.Bob Allen: They had a big organ in there too.Fred Tomlin: That's right. A big stage show, and I saw people like Soph[…]
[…]ught I could remember, I was at G-BI in '36, I thought I could remember there was a period when all the studios, all the floors were closed, only the newsreel was there, this would be '39 I suppose.Charles Wilder: Yes well things started to drift off in about 1938.Margaret Thomson: Oh did it? Yes.Ch[…]
[…]for it but as far as the other one was concerned we got nothing because they had said this is not entertainment this is political satire by enclosing newsreel shots of Krushov we disqualify it and nobody on the eastern block would vote for it at all. Not a question of we didn't win, they wouldn't vo[…]
[…]could angle it as you wanted it., I used to take it onto the stage and accompany the acts. Now there, I tell everybody this, we had a second feature, newsreel, cartoon, organ interlude, feature and an hour’s Variety, good Variety. Poor old Semprini he died recently, I accompanied him, and some lovel[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]the quality, because you can now, with modern tape editing facilities. From our original 35 we could do all sorts of things and the old original newsreel looked much better once we'd played around with it. So that was an improvement. Otherwise I did one 40 Minutes for my old friend Eddie Mirzeo[…]
[…]??] shutter - like a flywheel.Alan Lawson: Yes.Cyril Pennington-Richards: Absolutely incredible!Alan Lawson: It was used by one of the newsreel actually.Cyril Pennington-Richards: That's right, that's right, big...Alan Lawson: Yeah.Cyril Pennington-Richards: ...[???], a[…]
