David Robson

[…] in cinemas, you know - "16 mil. - pah!" But Shell were using it already, they were making a lot […]

David Robson

[…] millimetre in 1937 was a rich man's toy. We looked upon it as an amateur - you wouldn't even consider it in cinemas, you know - "16 mil. - pah!" But Shell were using it already, they were making a lot of their documentaries and I think my father realised it might be going that way. So the film with[…]

Sarah Erulkar (de Normanville)

[…] Page 3Delhi. But I mean I don’t know, it all gelled in some way and I was just lucky because Iwent to see Alex Volkov [?], you know, who was at Shell, and he also thought that this was a brilliant idea, actually go back and make documentary in India. But for variousreasons I can tell you that […]

Francis Gysin

[…]oleum company or something like that. Tim what time I got out there it was Shell company a shell of Venezuela. And my remit really was to. Venezuelan eyes […]

Edward Aneurin Williams

[…]ht? It was the best grinders on this list. And shortly after that, an old friend who has a PhD in history before LAN OCO, who by this time worked for Shell for me, asked me to write some music for a film that he is making in a series called how the aeroplane flies. And the one that you want me to dr[…]

John Shearman

[…]er bectus.Unknown Speaker  39:33  It's due to Peter bectus because he'd been he'd workedUnknown Speaker  39:38  before the war at Shell, at the shell Film Unit, which was the great technical Film Unit, and it had been diverted ontoUnknown Speaker  39:49  naval work duri[…]
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