[…]od coverage of the paratroops getting ready to go, the paratroops and airborne troops. I thought I did good cover in that, and it was because all the newsreels used it, and we were able to see - we were stationed then down at - that was at a place near Cambridge where they went, and I filmed that. A[…]
[…]emember the proportion of... I suppose most films then were double features weren’t they, or I think had a supporting, they didn’t go out with just a newsreel.No, it was quite a package. It was the ‘A’ picture, the ‘B’ picture, the newsreel and a short subject, usually. And forthcoming attractions. […]
[…] had a supporting, they didn’t go out with just a newsreel. No, it was quite a package. It was the […]
[…]eaker 2:19 they were in the process ofUnknown Speaker 2:22 transferring all the head a lot of old nitrate film, archive film, newsreel film like theUnknown Speaker 2:28 Hindenburg, crashing, exploding amazing stuff. And they were sending the good stuff off the Nat[…]
[…]the English version of it and also directed a few bits of shots. So I was working on that with him. Eventually, we started to make a sort of a French newsreel journal the gear and Robert hammer came in to edit that because they had to have somebody who speak French. But then of course after the fall[…]
[…] got permission to actually use authentic stuff it wasn't too bad. I mean the shots in "Next of Kin", although it's pretty obvious what are cut in as newsreel shots on what aren't are extremely authentic. Roy Fowler 20:39 What kind of influence did officialdom, the bureauc[…]
[…]st: No, no.Roy Fowler: No, I see, right. And what did the programme comprise, what did you get for your money?Eddie Dryhurst: Well we usually got the newsreel, which by then was a couple of issues old. The newsreel, a travel short, a two-reel comedy, the feature of course and maybe a second feature […]
[…]as a world first, a first time. We made the first 3-D travelogue, the first ballet film, the first animated cartoon, the first sports film, the first newsreel, first 3-D advertising film, and so on. Most ambitious of these films I think was our 3-D ballet film called The Black Swan, which featured B[…]
[…]esigned for big locations in America. One was only a bank of batteries and a petrol generator (a standard) and two recorders side by side so that for newsreel you could start one up and overlap, but I never really understood what went on inside those little boxes; I felt quite frightened when I went[…]
