[…]deserted by the Germans, we put all the camera gear in the dugout. It wouldn't be safe to leave it in the truck in case we were hit. We got some good shell fire and shells landing and when we came out in the morning we found the microphone had been knocked over. We wondered why it sounded a bit pecu[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] , Producer DMU 186 Peter de Normanville Shell Film Unit , BBC Film , TV […]
[…] 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 […]
