[…]e first first sort of feature editing dramatic wise as you were  And I'd accepted it. And after about a week or so, Jack Holmes rang up and said Shell are opening the  in Southeast Asia. And we need somebody to come out and John's Schlesinger's  going to make a film out for us. And jo[…]
[…] be firing all night like that in terrible conditions, the guns, all used to have a run ration. The ROM ration used to be the top of our three, seven shell cap, which is quite deep. It's quite a good ration. Now. Very unofficially, as none of my boys drink, drank, I used to send over a bottle to the[…]
[…]rt of attacks round Dakar with battleships - Barham and one or two other ships we had around, the names of which I don't always recall, er, and a few shells were fired from a ship, which we'd allowed to go through the straits of Gibraltar, um, a French ship sailing out of Toulon I suppose, and made […]
[…]e the early days, and they were all used with blues on we I think we had certain amount of color trends. There's monstrosities, but they were quickly shelled.Unknown Speaker  50:48  Why do you say monstrosity is the color trend?Speaker 3  50:52  Well, because you had to have this[…]
[…]ri also ran a company called Screenspace which makes cinema commercials. And they made all the big ones at the time, you know, the Camay Soap and the Shell that was, the Guinness, all the top ones. So that was why I was in Wardour Street a lot in connection with the commercials side. And, secondly a[…]
[…]I'd been         asked to show some of my BBC work to British Transport and talk about it as well as the Shell Film Unit which I did. On the night I nearly got killed, which was a very strange experience. I went to the Shell Centre by which time I was dir[…]
[…] was more congenial to my frame of mind. And I worked in 2-D documentary movies up to my retirement date.I shot films for Anglo-Scottish Pictures and Shell Film Unit at first, and then, for nearly 20 years, I was with World Wide Pictures, specializing there in popular science films for sponsors like[…]
