[…]g of the Iron falls dam in Uganda. And he'd been out to Uganda done this filming. And while he was out there he made contact with I think was a Public Relations Officer of East Africa Railways Jessecan Harvey? who at that time ran the railways and harbours obviously for Kenya, Kenya, Uganda an[…]
[…]career. The systems were set up by other people. All sorts of experts were there, much more expert at certain activities than I could ever be. In the publicity field I was used to doing quite a lot of things in publicity but I wasn't needed at EMI because we had two or three publicity experts. I mea[…]
[…] is asked about what what rounds are gonna fall in. It is fixed, isn't it,John P Hamilton 17:26 not just a stupid pa is it was the stupid public as well. Used to try it sometimes. Because obviously, we went to pubs. It was invariably early in the evening, got the shows in voting started […]
[…]l, most wonderful film and it's taking a fortune at the box office.Alan Sapper : Is it?Lew Grade : Yes ...and it will worldwide, which shows that the public will look at films that are not full of violence, and action, and nudity, and bad language. And I am working hard to try to get one off. I am s[…]
[…]w actually, because Sara was making her anti-alcohol film, one you made on anti-alcohol didn’t you? I was at the sametime shooting a film sort of for public relations for White Horse whisky, and the two units crossed in Glasgow just for one night. So Sara and I had a night together.And all got drunk[…]
[…]t was cut to Handel’s Water Music, it’s all I can remember of this whole thing, I’ll never forget [laughter]. But it was basically those sort of public relations films. One didn’t use the phrase then, but it would have been basicallypropaganda. &nb[…]
[…]s.And, mm, I think it probably does stem from America, it was, mm...Mm, the takeover. You see we had such a lot in reserve and first of all they went public.DAPHNE ANCELL 69[OI] Yes.And, mm, they, they sold their... The shares were owned by about five people which werepeople like Kalmus who, who’d c[…]
[…]ness my father met Castleton Knight who was the head of Gaumont British News, quite a character, an extraordinary chap. He did a lot of extraordinary publicity stunts at a time when newsreels were in enormous competition with each other and they would buy the rights and other companies would pinch i[…]
