[…]n (1913-1985) and Roy (1913-2001). Their films included Brighton Rock (1947) (Directed by John) and Thunder Rock (1942) (Directed by Roy). Their film production company Charter Film Productions was set up in 1937.5 Vivian Van Damm (1889-1960) ran the Windmill Theatre in London from 1932-1960
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[…]CHARLES SMITH: Yes, of course. It was with a small cooperative unit called DATA, DATA Film Unit. And I was taken on, really, in the first place, as a production manager and accountant, again because I could add up a row of figures, which not everybody can—although I wanted to be a technician.&[…]
[…]a also played it, so, no, can’t remember.Margaret Thomson: So at the moment, in a chronological sense, you left (indistinct), you got into your first production, and can you go on from there?Jean Anderson: Yes, then you see how lucky we were in my young days, to have these Reps, where you real[…]
[…]as a film about the bringing up of babies I was supposed to then have known something about it.MT: But mostly now you had stop being involved in film production and you were editing this new journal called World Film News which I gather had replaced Cinema Quarterly as a vehicle for the whole […]
[…]ushes the first time.CC: No I didn't rate being invited. I was too low down the scale. Technicolor were quite different to — if you were working on a production you went as member of the production crew. The rushes at Technicolor were still a much higher 1evel operation, just heads of department and[…]
[…]y'd finished the film but they couldn't get the music right, so that was a horrible warming. We started up when I was there Cambridge University Film Production Unit and we made a film which was called Psychology Today. The camera had been left there, it was a hand cranked, I think Stuart Legart had[…]
