[…]ould be useful because that was the way things were going. And it was it was it was quite new with having three cinemas within the old the old cinema shell. Yeah. SoSpeaker 1 9:49 how did that work? I mean, was there a common projection box with things firing in different directions or w[…]
[…]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’’[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]t thing, war breaks out, so we're completely closed. Nothing to do. I got a job for about a couple of months at a munitions factory in Barnes, making shells, and they were really white hot, and because with my complexion I was getting very burnt, I mean even through my clothes I was getting burnt. S[…]
[…]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[…]
