[…]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 […]
[…] recounted dashing between cinemas in the dark with cans of newsreels that were shared owing to shortages of film stock.[40] […]
[…]ether. And there was a cameraman there who was, sort of chip-on-his-shoulder chap, who always wanted to cause trouble - what was he? I think he was a newsreel cameraman, or had been. Can't remember his name - awful isn't it?Rodney Giesler : Can you describe me some of the sort of things that prompte[…]
[…] was a man called Mathew Anallgate(?) - he was a great fastidious dilettante who left actually quite soon afterwards because I think he went to radio newsreel - and, of course, I discovered, it turned out because of Korda and that sort of thing that he had been a film critic ...John Legard: Was[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]ust run 24 hours a day animated cartoon films. I've forgotten the name of one but it was actually I think it was based on Piccadilly Circus there and newsreels rockin usual type of thing. But it was all animation. You know, we all the old Warner Brothers, Road Runners. And that's where I think we go[…]
[…] of said several cinemas running the same print. It was always and they each had their own print from Glasgow. But the only thing they shared was the newsreel. And that went between the Capitol and the Astoria. Somebody on the tram car used to go with a noose I believe. But I didn't ever I never wor[…]
[…]nd trying to dunk a duck, I think I told you this story did I? You know, if a duck gets detergent on it, as well, as you've seen from these dreadful, newsreel things, about seabirds, they lose all the oil from their feathers, and they can't float anymore. And so to demonstrate the power of detergent[…]
