[…]res in the newspapers, so there was going to be a restriction on it. So I thought, well, the one thing that was top of the pole in those days was the newsreels. They were in everything, did everything. So I wrote to there were five New Zealand companies in those days that was paramount, universal pa[…]
[…] way. But = had no deeper knowledge than that, beyond newsreels, and documentaries. =t was the discovery of unseen film […]
[…] that time.Margaret Thompson 27:30 I was an extratwo or three months that was really alone in the newsroom. Yes, Roy Drew was head of the newsreel cutting drama centre. Remember, I remembered hardly at all.Anyhow.Yes, yes. Yes.So should we have a break?Frances Cockburn 27:56 […]
[…]ch Bill Hornbeck did. On the Young Veteran for instance which was supposed to be about a young chap returning from Dunkirk, we go and see a whole lot newsreel material including that French series that they made before the Germans walked in, I can't remember what it was called, we had got the negati[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]o work I went as an editor to the Office of War Information, which was the American equivalent of the MOI. And what they were doing was turning out a newsreel every week for the advancing troops to take into the liberated towns. So we were getting stuff from the American frontline photographers, cam[…]
[…]xcept of course there wasn't any news on television, one has to add, there wasn't any news on television at that time, because all there was a weekly newsreel which was compiled largely from the commercial news in the cinema.Norman Swallow: Movietone etcDavid Attenborough: It was regarded that if yo[…]
[…] television at that time, because all there was a weekly newsreel which was compiled largely from the commercial news in […]
[…]ke we have to put up with these days. [18.11]The other mixers there at Denham at that time were John Cooke, Charlie Tasto, Terry Cotter who came from Newsreel, Red Law who later came on as dubbing mixer, Desmond Dew who went to Canada after the war. There was Dick Smith. There was an American called[…]
[…]can’t put that in. Are you recording?And dog ends?, [Laughter]And, mm, I did everything and finished up, finished up in the drying rooms breaking out newsreels working twenty-four hours often never knowing when you could go home. We went when we were told.3Yes. Did you know Emanuel Coombes when you […]
