[…]p;1:01:27  Cable and Wireless mainly?  Mary Orrom  1:01:29  Yes, mostly for Cable and Wireless, some some for Shell. But, I mean Cable and Wireless were very good sponsors. In the... there was one occasion when, I suppose it was about 19....very early 70s. And[…]
[…]brary before the caravans came and this is where I think I first started learning about writing really listening to them. But Vincent came in looking shell-shocked. He’d just seen the head of department, Donald Wilson, who later went on to do The Forsyte Saga and he said ‘I’ve been given this book’’[…]
[…]t's happening now. So get out of the car rush up. And it's, well, basically what had happened in the down was littered with with spent cartridges and shells, and you're always told never to touch anything. So they were grouped around this Bren Gun Carrier. And we were discussing, well, I wasn't ther[…]
[…]lous in violet velvet and it was a beautiful, sort of, weird period recreation. Maxine Audley was in shaded lace, very beautiful rose pink shading to shell pink. Immensely elaborate, she looked beautiful but I heard Bumble say “Uh, my god, I had no idea that Roger would people the ballroom with men […]
[…]o Chatham and so on. And anyhow, this film was made and it was called Ship Safety and it was the idea to show that when you had a collision or when a shell penetrated the thing, the best thing is to shut the compartment door so that the ship...the water was contained to that particular section. And […]
[…]solutely gold. Everybody wanted to get on television in those days...Alan Lawson: [interrupts] Yes...Cyril Page: And er... to see er...like Castro or Shell or Britvic or like that on the box, I mean, it was worth millions of pounds to them all, and wherever we went, we always...people used to say, "[…]
This transcription was provided in 2015 by the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, Leeds University) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University).   BECTU History ProjectInterv[…]
[…]or a coffee shop. We came out the other side and there was this film crew in a gale force wind or flat against the side of a hill tried to do a coach shell of a guy saying something. I thought this is no way to make films. Strangely enough when I saw this shot a few days later as rushes you could no[…]
