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[…]now. I went "over the top." "Over the top" was a very dangerous, very unpleasant thing to do, because you had to go into the teeth of machine gun and shell fire and things like that. Usually about half the battalion would survive, and that kind of stuff, you know. On September 1st 1918 I went "over […]

[…] as a way of learning something about the background of the industry. Eventually. Having worked in very small documentary units I managed to get into shell. Basically because I had had this good degree. And managed to sue funnily enough through the BFI. Is this getting too long. Dennis former was ve[…]

[…]ow then we will go Very happy and contented, nice Film Unit. I made a lot of very good friends many of whom I keep up with here at BAFTA, but the bombshell was around the corner with the arrival of a conservative government in 1952 5152. And one of the first acts was to close down the crime Film Uni[…]

[…]. Yeah. This was when I was coming into the industry. Yes. This is when film sponsored film was probably getting at its best you have Yeah, still had shell doing good. Yeah. Yeah. transport. Yes. And then, of course, the guild and everyone. And you had this for actually showing reasonable films ever[…]

[…]ns in the film industry sothat when I’m discharged I’ll have some connections. And there was an advertisement inthe paper for a telephone operator at Shell Film Unit. [laughter] And I got the job, heaven knows why, I made complete spaghetti of the... because it was one of those switchboard[…]

Bob Narduzzo (BN) BECTU No.434Projectionist, Laboratory Technician (Shell, ARTV, Humphries)Interviewer: Rodney Geisler (RG)Date 18/5/981 TapeSide 100:00:00 – 00:06:10 Early life; born November 3rd, 1926 in London; father was Italian and mother came from Bath; father worked as a booking clerk on[…]