[…]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[…]
[…]. Yeah. This was when I was coming into the industry. Yes. This is when film sponsored film was probably getting at its best you have Yeah, still had shell doing good. Yeah. Yeah. transport. Yes. And then, of course, the guild and everyone. And you had this for actually showing reasonable films ever[…]
[…] and never forgotten it. And because I couldn't get into the theatre I decided to try the people who'd made Night Mail. And I found out where the GPO Film Unit were, they were in Soho Square. So I went there and I was told they'd moved to Denham. And I got the name of the woman who was responsible f[…]
[…]she was obviously, you know, sheappeared to be a very, or quite an experienced film editor by then, yes. And we, I think we were working on films for Shell.Mm.And, as you say, fairly, fairly technical stuff.Mm.I’m just trying to think who was writing there at that time. There was Rob Evans, who was […]
[…]ed him on Sunday, and my first day in the film industry I was never paid for, and I started work officially being paid at £3 a week on the Monday for Shell.AL: Where were you based.BM: Shellmex House -AL : St Tand .BM: The She 11 Film Unit was really part of She 11 International and should have been[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]'t afford the luxury of taking people off the street and training them to make films at nations. But what I would recommend is a very good cap school Shell, and they give a wonderful training. And if you do a year in Shell, I'll guarantee you a job with data. SoSarah Erulkar 7:13 t[…]
[…]dn't quite, but I learnt a lot from you about cutting - when did you first actually get your hands on a bit of 35mm - can you remember?Kay Mander: At Shell.AL: At Shell? So we're into the documentaries.Sidney Cole: So we were going to stop there.AL: We'll stop there, that's fine, because we've come […]
[…]e first first sort of feature editing dramatic wise as you were And I'd accepted it. And after about a week or so, Jack Holmes rang up and said Shell are opening the in Southeast Asia. And we need somebody to come out and John's Schlesinger's going to make a film out for us. And jo[…]
[…]er bectus.Unknown Speaker 39:33 It's due to Peter bectus because he'd been he'd workedUnknown Speaker 39:38 before the war at Shell, at the shell Film Unit, which was the great technical Film Unit, and it had been diverted ontoUnknown Speaker 39:49 naval work duri[…]
