[…] in touch with Frank Rodker and his camera at the Shell film unit? Joy Batchelor: No, no. I came in touch with […]
[…]er and Sidney ColeInterviewee: Tom PeacockTape 1, Side 1Sidney Cole: Well it's nice to meet you Tom and to ask you about what you remember about that film which we were both associated with at Denham Studios all those years ago, 1942 in fact. Would you like to tell me about your involvement in that?[…]
[…]n troops. Firing guns towards the Germans. I remember. I one develops very hard shell really because I remember one time I was on a gun possession that had […]
[…] Yes... Cyril Page: And er... to see er...like Castro or Shell or Britvic or like that on the box, I […]
[…]solutely gold. Everybody wanted to get on television in those days...Alan Lawson: [interrupts] Yes...Cyril Page: And er... to see er...like Castro or Shell or Britvic or like that on the box, I mean, it was worth millions of pounds to them all, and wherever we went, we always...people used to say, "[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] guns were, see just how easy it was to lob shells smack into the city, and how close they were. […]
[…] the director who worked atCrown at the time, and it was him who invited us all to his father’s party. So I went there, ofcourse everybody was there, Shelley, Peter Finch and Peter Finch spoke to me because he was one of my heartthrobs, of course I was tickled pink and all sorts of top film stars an[…]