[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
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[…]
[…] Miriam and people were involved in this and Henry and Shelley were, do you remember them? SF: Yes. Of Central […]
[…] quite a bit of work I think, in documentaries - Shell Film Unit, they were quite a big and prestigious […]
[…] truck in case we were hit. We got some good shell fire and shells landing and when we came out […]
[…] Standard Oil on a freelance basis. Now Standard Oil and Shell over here, I'm not absolutely sure that I 've […]
[…] and Woman's Weekly and things like that, but also for Shell. And at Shell I met Jack Beddington, who helped […]
[…]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[…]
