[…]wishing noise], and immediately we thought it was parachutes coming down. But it turned out to be that round the corner there'd been a house hit by a shell and there was a piece of lino hanging down from the rafters and this was going like this in the wind you see! [Chuckles] So you can imagine what[…]
[…]t all back to Melbourne, unpacked it there, and we did set it up. We met this major who turned out to be a madman. He, the poor man, I think had been shell shocked in World War One. He was evidently a pal of Captain Hutchinson, who was Baird's managing director, friend, co managing direct[…]
[…]f the eye of the aircraft. And so they could go in low level and fire shells at the coastal ships and sink them that way. And with some fighter try&nb[…]
[…]ry films of the Grierson school were often sponsored, if not by the GPO as showing important things in British life, by big companies, as for example Shell, which deserved every credit, as people felt at the time, for financing something of social interest, which showed some social problem that migh[…]
[…]lished - he managed to do a piece of very major geological research - and published a book, a very technical book, of course, on a certain, a certain shellfish, which has existed over the millennia, and is used as a sort of coding animal for various levels of geological times. And this book became a[…]
[…]brother,Ron Hill 9:02 and it was Charlie. Oh, Charlie was the only one in the family. That didn't take anything mechanical. He worked for Shell Mex & BP. And he worked himself to a very good position. Very good job. I knew you'd have to treat it very well. Importantly, after you've b[…]
[…]And also working with a very small team, you know, people. And then I met some very interesting people, like Ralph keen Powell. I even worked for the shell market Film Unit, for certain. But I met some day, July, for people, Arthur Elton, who was then the head of it, and they were all trying to, and[…]
[…]we had a wonderful kit for them to act in, a wonderful costume, but the sound effects afterwards were very difficult, we were having crunching muscle shells, in the end I think we did it with sugar I think, then we had to think how was he going to walk, we got to the final shots of hill having to wa[…]
EXTRACT:-"A chap I knew said would I like to come down to Denham. I said, 'I don’t think I know enough about fibrous plastering.' He said, 'Well, come down because they could do with men, because they’re busy.' They were doing 'Elephant Boy' and things like that at the time, a[…]
[…] 24:29 bind, books, paint, Carpenter, stuff, and I there was a time when I sort ofSpeaker 1 24:46 getting a bit going into my shell. It was off putting all these books, I suppose I'd read magazines. It's one reason. It could be. Good material. Now was loved him dearly, of cou[…]
