[…]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[…]
[…]tactics and everything else and I was trained as Airborne. [32.17] A few months before D-Day they said you are to go out as a Commando, out with No.4 Royal Marine Commando on D-Day with a detachment and one of the sergeants was Ernie Walter who later became an editor at MGM and we landed at D- Day o[…]
[…]ected to the mullard radio valve factory in Mitcham. In Surrey, and I spent some months there and then finally was called up and went into REME Royal electrical and mechanical engineers. Spent, I've never been able to remember exactly how long I've put off my I think it was about two and[…]
[…]I suppose? Andy Worker: Yeah. Roy Fowler: Would 'Oliver' be the biggest production that Shepperton serviced? Andy Worker: Well 'Casino Royale' was probably the biggest! [Chuckles] Roy Fowler: Ah, right! Andy Worker: At the shareholder's meeting, one of our shareholders said,[…]
[…] in 1927 made illegal. They would decide on a programme and pictures - mostly subjects that were in the public domain, so they didn't have to pay any royalties or rights, and then they would announce this series in the trade papers and start taking bookings on them. And when they reached nine hundre[…]
[…] I was just interested in women in the film and television indu stry. 15 0:25:40 JOY: Yes, they’re treated a […]
[…] the records are at Berkhampstead in the National Film and Television Archive, so you joined when, in '42 would you […]
[…] On Golden PondI went with Ann, you really get the royal treatment there. Because on the Saturday Kodaks threw a […]
[…] During WWII, Morris served as a bomber pilot for the Royal Air Force, and returned to the film industry when […]
