[…]irst break as a lightning cameraman was a documentary about the Vatican; SS also received a lot of credit on a film of Rembrandt shot on three-strip; Shellarama a film made for [Dimitri?] on the payroll of Shell which required a great deal of travelling and location work; SS discusses his family.Sid[…]
Yvonne Littlewood DRAFT. Tape 1 Side AThis recording was transcribed by funds from the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, University of Leeds) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University). ([…]
[…]t dramatic film I think I've ever worked on in terms of the kinds of things that happened. For example, we had a great many explosions on the ship of shells, bursting on the ship, and so on and so forth. And it was one terrible episode when what we used to do was we used to put flesh powder into fil[…]
[…]estones or Arundel Clark, goes bust. So Misha Black, Ronnie Dickins Francis Bacon and I are out on the pavement I had Wakefield's biscuits. Misha had Shell Ronnie had Skefko ball bearings, we had something and we had portfolios with something to show and from that date, which would be 19 early 30s a[…]
[…]ontrol room in the gallery that you produced from, the other would would probably be involved with effects in the studio. The cliché image is coconut shells, half coconut shells for horses’ hooves whereas in fact you've gotten plenty of horses galloping or whatever on disc though. The spot eff[…]
[…]f them in my life, my long life. You should never, if you, if you respect and love somebody’s work you should not try to meet them, you only meet the shell, you know, very, very few people come up to the value of their work because you meet something empty, something...Has anyone not disappointed yo[…]
[…]of documentary film because films had quite a lot of money.SPEAKER: F12They had film offices they had directors on the board particularly of Unilever shell. I see eye to name a few who were light films and British Transport films of course most other who they realized the value of films for training[…]
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