[…]ve have a retrospective on on on on the films he was in.Well, after reverse Oh yes. at Riverside the dreaded note came back and said you've left the craft Film Unit where you're doing national service will you please report production national national service again so Icalled them up called a marsh[…]
[…] printed a limited number so they were hard to come by, so I did deals with newspaper shops and various others around that area right down as far as Trafalgar Square almost: “I’ll give you a couple of these papers if you let me have a few cigarettes”, which they did. And one of my best customers was[…]
[…]e newsreel were, in order of priority, Dick Cawston, undoubtedly, and then Dennis Edwards. Dennis was a marvellous Film Editor, chap out of the RAF, he knew what he was doing. He got on with it. He was quick, lightening quick, and a most wonderful companion, most terrific colleague[…]
[…]ing with glee, it was an absolutely wonderful shot, it really was a wonderful shot. And he said, "Jesus Christ, that's great!" And when they cut, the RAF man standing with us said, "I don't know if it matters but I could see the film." [Laughs] They hadn't shut the door of the camera! That was that![…]
[…]s a direct and always crew on this table the lights go out back.SPEAKER: M2It might be time to talk about the unions first of all was there a lot of graft at the studio.SPEAKER: M8In what respect. You mentioned kickbacks for the.SPEAKER: M9Abuses of the system materials disappearing.SPEAKER: M16Ther[…]
[…]y weapons without anything and it was really very frustrating and I was fed up with it. I was really lucky because I applied to be transferred to the RAF and they wouldn't let you. They had this extraordinary idea that you couldn't transfer to a junior service.KGY: Were you actual1y conscripted.CC: […]
[…] was brought out of the Civil Defence. But I worked with Mickey on a number of his pictures. I think we almost immediately went on to 'One of our Aircraft is Missing' with him.Alan Lawson : Again on the boom?Gordon McCallum : I was on the boom and C. C. Stevens was the mixer on all those Mickey pict[…]
[…]t Shepperton Studios. Yeah.Unknown Speaker 4:32 So where did you go on after that toSpeaker 2 4:37 go? I got caught up in the RAF in 1950. And I just started work on a film called The Long Dark Hall, which record back was co directing with Anthony Bushnell and that took place[…]
[…]e whole time, even when we moved to Pinewood whichwas the beginning. After that we moved to Curzon St, after that we allmoved to Pinewood to join the RAF and Crown Film Unit. I won't detailanything about that, I, will go back to it. Then I got demobbed. Before Igot demobbed, we had had Muir Mathieso[…]
