[…]. 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[…]
[…]anise the whole thing that we had to start at six o'clock in the morning, they had to have their proper uniforms taken off, and our uniforms torn and shell blown and full of gunpowder, we had to make them up with bandages, like the men coming back from Dunkirk. And it's one of the most exciting scen[…]
[…]born, where you grew up, and something about your education. RS: Okay. I was born in 1948 in Istanbul, Turkey because my father used to work for Shell, the oil company, so I have two older sisters who were born in Brazil and I was born in Turkey. My family moved when I was about six to The Cana[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]'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[…]