[…] out of the Army early because that way I was able to get a job, I mean, I had no money and no background, nothing. And I wrote to every single newspaper in the country and abroad…I: Can I stop you a second? Why newspapers? R: Well I…yes, why?&nb[…]
[…]il Phillips took over from him.Yes, ah, ha.Yes. And typical French. Well, it was Pathé Freres then, it was Pathé Gazette in thosedays it wasn’t Pathé News. And you saw them, we used to do, as I say, we used to have The Pathé Gazette and all sections had to be joined by hand.Yes, yes.And I can a[…]
[…]hen out of the blue I. Got a letter. I applied for a job at Universal News. Which again I didn't know was one of the five newsreels in Britain. I […]
[…] National, what sort of work did you do after that? Did you continue in newsreels, or do other things?Alf Tunwell: Well I... I applied for a job with Pathe Freres, in their laboratory. And I've got rather an interesting letter with me here, it's only a couple of lines, I'll just read it to you. It's[…]
[…]s very interested in that at the time. And then I was ill. I had rheumatic fever and one or two other things. And I got, I went to I got a job on the newspaper, and I was going to say I was photographer, though I was going to eventually be a photographer, I worked in the dark rooms, and I learned a […]
[…]] had been before I’d left. So I had [???] so I, I went back to London. Q:What was the Pathé operation in London? Was it to service the French news reel? 00:20:53ADOLPH:Yes, oh yes, this French news reel, and published here, you see, as well. Q:There was a Pathé reel … of course[…]
[…]mean, it being military stuff there was nocensorship on it at all because it was military material shot under military.........Q ...returning them in Pathe?А .......... Working as War correspondents, all their material was censored, definitely. Just aswe were in the Falklands with ITN. Every foot of[…]
[…]ctor, hand-turn, and we used to do the old er Keystone Cops and Charlie Chaplin films, which were quite good. Then I went on, graduated a bit, to the Pathescope Home Movie Projector, which my father bought me, and er...and it led from there that I was doing all the films for the... We used to hire f[…]
