[…]f the right tone and was good enough. And so he chose somebody he had met in the theatre, I think that the director had worked as an assistant at the Royal Court. His name was Stephen Frears. And that was his first film experience. And he was responsible for setting up and timing and editing the vid[…]
[…]arts of the basement. And in those days, everything was very secret. If you never knew who owned the freehold and the we shared the premises with the Royal window cleaner Metropolitan Window Cleaning, who was Mrs. Lovett, who are one of these rare occasions where the Royal arms they were transferred[…]
[…]nd I found that I was an expert at this [laughs]. And I went in for competitions non-stop and won them all. Eventually there was a competition at the Royal Albert Hall, December 15th, 1926, the World Charleston Championship. I went in for it, I won it and my prize was four weeks' engagement starting[…]
[…]ncy's put one immediately in your place, they appointed experts. There were experts on design, they are called to art directors. There are experts on television, media, they are called television executives. And then there are experts on story board design and they are called the heads of the story […]
[…]en amateur-made films get on, but in those days commercial newsreels were much despised, because they consisted almost entirely of ceremonial events, royal weddings, Ascot, social events, sport and so on, and didn't deal with real life at all. And therefore there wouldn't have been the archive mater[…]
[…] What was your company called.CC: Solent Fi1ms.KGY: Your son's company isCC: Worldmark but he still has Solent Films. He has just done a film for the Royal Yachting Association on sail boards.KGY: I think that's it, thank you very much.
