[…]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[…]
[…] And if you read your history, and this can be confirmed, Himmler was there, and we had to, first of all, clear their breakfast table, where their eggshells were still been left, we were that near. In and that, of course, Lubeck at the end of the road was the Russian frontier, Bucha, Russian frontie[…]
[…]2 6:50 now we come to the 's, and that is a film in India on the electrification of India, with an Indian director who had worked for the shell Film Unit here, and who knew me because I had did some filming for Shell on many occasions, and I was the only foreigner on the Indian crew. The[…]
[…] all arranged. In other words Beddington wanted, he had had a very narrow experience of film-making. He had been Director of Publicity for Shell you see, and there was a Shell unit. And I think Beddington could only think really in terms of his own experience of film-making which was tota[…]
[…] on to do The Italian Job, you know. Yeah, he was a bit kind of that, yeah. Lewis Gilbert of course I did Alfie with him. I was doing commercials for Shell Oil, and his son was the Location Manager, and he just said to me one day “Oh, my dad’s doing a picture. Shall I mention you to him?” “Yes, yes,[…]
[…]re were two dinosaurs don't forget or two elements of prehistory as the Fox Rockies and the Nautilus the under C O octopus type creature of the great shell that was going over from the time it was going to be occupied by prehistoric animals. But the sequence for me that stands out wonderfully is the[…]
