[…]t dramatic film I think I've ever worked on in terms of the kinds of things that happened. For example, we had a great many explosions on the ship of shells, bursting on the ship, and so on and so forth. And it was one terrible episode when what we used to do was we used to put flesh powder into fil[…]
[…]ey.NS: Mm.DMW: So, we invented Alf Garnett. We did a flight over Wapping in a chopper [a helicopter]; to save money we hopped aboard somebody else's: Shell UK paid for it, not us.NS: This is you and Johnny Speight?DMW: This is me and Johnny looking for an area that will encompass all the locat[…]
[…]f them in my life, my long life. You should never, if you, if you respect and love somebody’s work you should not try to meet them, you only meet the shell, you know, very, very few people come up to the value of their work because you meet something empty, something...Has anyone not disappointed yo[…]
[…] line at the end ? Karel Reisz:21.11Oh yes they did, they had the Ford Motor Company presents. Like Shell, really, except that Shell made scientific films and ethnographical films. And we made these, I suppose,[…]
[…]used to live in er Churchill Street Gardens yeah, hmm. Peter Baylis, I liked Peter, I got on well with him and he and D'Arcy Cartwright who went into Shell Film Unit - D'Arcy.Alan Lawson: Yes.Leonard Harris: The others I don't think they ever came into the industry at all, I can't remember. And then[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 169 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2003-05-01Interview Date: 1990-11-29Interviewer: Bob AllenInterviewee: Fred TomlinTape 1, Side 1 Bob Allen: This is an interview with Fred Tomlin, boom operator, and the date is the 29th November 1990, so we'll […]
[…]eave him to go ahead and do it. I did quite a lot of work on that which I thoroughly enjoyed. And I did shows for Mort Zaal which was a disaster, and Shelley Burn.I was also involved in things like Juke Box Jury and 6.5 Special, I did some of those. And Off The Record. I eventually got the series of[…]
[…]David Lowe. And then we did a film for the Air Force, and a number of other ministry's. Once finished, then industry picked on us, British Petroleum, Shell and then we moved in a big way into public relations films and this is practically where you came in because we were together with Larkins Studi[…]
[…]d an inquiry from the government at Schubert over the establishment at Shoeburyness, they wanted a camera which they could put in a pit to photograph shells and all that sort of thing they were doing down there. And then we were all put on overtime getting this, this prototype camera together, which[…]
[…] 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[…]
