[…]lie,Speaker 2 29:59 John. Best Friend, yes, and I was the AP on that coach, but you know all about that, yes, no, no, but the people Yes, posterity won't know. What did you have anything particular to say about that film? No,Speaker 3 30:10 because it wasn't a difficult one f[…]
[…] was another one deliveredshortly after the film, that was Jonathan, that was Roy’s son, Jonathan.What happened when, you stayed on right through the post production and everything?6Mary Harvey Tape 1 Side AYes, they had to go back to Pinewood, or their various bases. So they left me in, in charge o[…]
[…] - I went straight into the cutting room on that. And that, I think, was cut by McNaughton - I'm not sure. But Jack insisted that I was given all the post-synch, to supervise and to put back, which was a massive job because it was all optical film in those days of course. There was no rock-and-roll,[…]
[…]ir Ministry for a Staff Officer to help wind up the Empire Air Training Scheme – this was virtually towards the end of the European War, and so I was posted to Alexandra House in Kingsway. And I think this was the most dangerous part, my most dangerous part of my war because I arrived there ju[…]
[…]nerphone tape but that going at high speed is highly dangerous because if it breaks it just spews out all over the place. So that was scrapped. So we postponed the idea of sound recording until we got a bit more perfection on our processing side, there was a lot of experimentation. We did a lot of e[…]
[…] And of course a man called - he was a Post Office Film Unit, considered the king man of documentaries, […]
[…]almost nothing about that because I had surprisingly little to do with the studios and the production companies, I’m afraid. I came into the story in post-production. As soon as the negative film arrives in the lab then I’m interested and it gets developed and printed. But I really don’t know very m[…]
[…]l as it closed. So there we were running around this empty building, which was echoing it was fun. Paul Lecker 12:35 About post production. Did he edit most of the films? Bobbi Riesel 12:39 He edited everything. Yes, we had an editing suite upsta[…]
[…]that time they were very colourful, and that interested me in films. In Ideal films I was office boy to start with and graduated up a bit to farm out posters and stills to run cinemas and that sort of thing. Made lots of mistakes, obviously, sent the wrong posters and things like that, but anyway. T[…]
