[…]or/Peet: Were you operated on on the spot or were…Denis Forman: Yes, I was amongst Indians and had a hell of a time getting down because we werebeing shelled and it was a precipice. My batman a big guy called Rutherford he was about 6'2",tried to find people to carry me down but couldn't, we would g[…]
[…] of the same order as that produced by an area track and it could add to the effect of certain things. I mean it was astonishing with the gunfire and shell bursts and things that we did – actually we blew up – we were using Western Electric 630 microphones – a good old standby – we blew up two mics,[…]
[…]2 6:50 now we come to the 's, and that is a film in India on the electrification of India, with an Indian director who had worked for the shell Film Unit here, and who knew me because I had did some filming for Shell on many occasions, and I was the only foreigner on the Indian crew. The[…]
[…] was the thing that really destroyed the fortifications on there were the the next day, we did battleships way behind you, the 16 inch armor piercing shells. They're the ones who did it. You could hear them too, but God, you could. And the the invasion started, and that was it. And I was there for t[…]
[…] all arranged. In other words Beddington wanted, he had had a very narrow experience of film-making. He had been Director of Publicity for Shell you see, and there was a Shell unit. And I think Beddington could only think really in terms of his own experience of film-making which was tota[…]
