[…] of the same order as that produced by an area track and it could add to the effect of certain things. I mean it was astonishing with the gunfire and shell bursts and things that we did – actually we blew up – we were using Western Electric 630 microphones – a good old standby – we blew up two mics,[…]
[…] 24:29 bind, books, paint, Carpenter, stuff, and I there was a time when I sort ofSpeaker 1 24:46 getting a bit going into my shell. It was off putting all these books, I suppose I'd read magazines. It's one reason. It could be. Good material. Now was loved him dearly, of cou[…]
[…] 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. […]
