Francis Gysin

[…]oleum company or something like that. Tim what time I got out there it was Shell company a shell of Venezuela. And my remit really was to. Venezuelan eyes […]

Richard Marden

[…]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[…]

Robert M (Bob) Angell

[…]ow then we will go Very happy and contented, nice Film Unit. I made a lot of very good friends many of whom I keep up with here at BAFTA, but the bombshell was around the corner with the arrival of a conservative government in 1952 5152. And one of the first acts was to close down the crime Film Uni[…]

Interview

[…]e chance for their own area to be enhanced by film. And so you had two tendencies, really, two trends, two directions of development. One towards the Shell Film Unit, the other, later, towards Shell-Mex and BP.And in a way they were both concerned with the er - the environment, but er - Shell UK was[…]

Edward Aneurin Williams

[…]ht? It was the best grinders on this list. And shortly after that, an old friend who has a PhD in history before LAN OCO, who by this time worked for Shell for me, asked me to write some music for a film that he is making in a series called how the aeroplane flies. And the one that you want me to dr[…]

Sydney Samuelson

[…]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[…]

Ray Harryhausen

[…]re were two dinosaurs don't forget or two elements of prehistory as the Fox Rockies and the Nautilus the under C O octopus type creature of the great shell that was going over from the time it was going to be occupied by prehistoric animals. But the sequence for me that stands out wonderfully is the[…]

John Aldred

[…] truck in case we were hit. We got some good shell fire and shells landing and when we came out […]

Stephen Peet

[…]f school activities and interests, of which I didn't have any. [00:04:22] But and this really is how I started. Perhaps something that led up to filmmaking, rather before that, let me think when I was about 12 my sister went on a visit to Germany. She saw advertised that, that week or that day […]

Freddie Francis

[…]his sort of light and could photograph it. Which we do it. And it was quite amazing when we saw that people were falling over each other and dropping shells. And as a result of which the Ministry increased the rate of gunfire over London by quite an amount.Another thing, dear old Dave Harcourt did t[…]
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