[…]I had some friends down there. So I went to New York and became a film editor in New York for Standard Oil on a freelance basis. Now Standard Oil and Shell over here, I'm not absolutely sure that I 've got this right, but they were both competing for some work with the Shell Film Unit in Venezuela a[…]
[…]bsp;well, wonderful. I mean, people like George Butler, J will Thompson, Ashley, having done at Crawfords, Arpad Alpha even. I mean, oh, the monster, Shelly Shelton, the monster, monstrous man. But, yes, of course, very good. I don't know what they're like now, but then they were very good.Roy Fowle[…]
[…]of freelance work for various companies and advertising people. Not only the Mirror and Titbits and Woman's Weekly and things like that, but also for Shell. And at Shell I met Jack Beddington, who helped to keep us from starving.Kay Mander: And that was doing graphic for their advertising, for their[…]
[…]st a very nice fountain pen shop, so perhaps we’ll buy him a fountain pen”. And so he went in and saw one that he liked and it was a sort of tortoise shell coloured and .... he s said to them “I’d like that one how much is it”. And they said ”Seven fifty”. So he thought well that’s not very much, ho[…]
[…]re. So there must have been nitrate. But then remember, ship is extremely well equipped to cope with nitrate Basically, what it uses to fire it shells with so we know they wouldn't have any special horrors for ship. But yes, it. I think I'm right in saying that. The non flam film wasn't really[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 36 [Copyright BECTU] Transcription Date: 2003-10-01Interview Date: 1988-04-26 Interviewer: Roy FowlerInterviewee: Eddie Dryhurst Tape 1, Side 1Roy Fowler: This recording is copyright by the ACTT History Project. It's recorded on t[…]
[…]k way outside television a lot of big companies had collections of film, ICI, British Transport, you know a lot of big companies and also, of course, Shell had a very big collection. Quite a lot of professional bodies had collections as well and I think people began to realise in the library p[…]
[…] time favorite films. When I first saw it on release in gold as greenhouse in the Air Force at the time and my mate myself went to see it we came out shell shocked. Absolutely shell shock because it's broken complete new grilled at that time.SPEAKER: M2Well this is what was going on in this country.[…]
