HISTORY PROJECT - ADOLPH SIMON​[TIME CODE IN ELAPSED TIME]​SIDE 1​Q:​This is the recording by the ACTT History Project on the 16th of October 1987, with Monsieur Adolph Simon, originally French, but now a long resident in England. Mr Simon, tell me when and where were you born? 00:00:20​AD[…]
[…]nt.AG: Have you any idea what the impact of these films were once they'dbeen made?DB: Certainly Desert Victory had an enormous impact, it even won theOscar for the best documentary of that year. Burma Victory I think was agreat counter to the feature film which I think Errol Flynn made calledOperati[…]
[…]of the film was shot in Spain not Jordan; Doctor Zhivago was shot in Spain – David Lean thought of making it in Russia originally; FY talks about his Oscar wins; Cubby Broccoli sent FY to Technicolor Hollywood to check the prints of You Only Live Twice; he recalls meeting Walter Pidgeon.[END]
The copyright of this recording and transcript is vested in the BECTU History Project. Bryan Langley was interviewed by Arthur Graham on 18 November 1987.1. Improvising with film stockAG: We're on the different types of film stocks. What were their differences, and what were their special requiremen[…]
