Rebecca O\'Brien

[…] contrary inventing rules that unless you're very careful, and I had a useless Production Manager, I'd hired this bloke who just kept on going into a shell all the time and so crying. So he was pretty hopeless. So I don't know we, but we just sort of managed it. I mean, I think, you know, I think on[…]

John Schlesinger

[…]I'd been         asked to show some of my BBC work to British Transport and talk about it as well as the Shell Film Unit which I did. On the night I nearly got killed, which was a very strange experience. I went to the Shell Centre by which time I was dir[…]

Maurice Carter

[…]ngAnd what I didn't mention to you that I think is quite important is our entry intoTechnicolor with Jassy, the first Technicolor filmThe Roy Fowler: Shell we just run down the list and till we get to Jassy. Bandwagon1939 which is probably then the transition into wartime. Frozen Limits is a Crazy G[…]

Derek Threadgall

[…] time favorite films. When I first saw it on release in gold as greenhouse in the Air Force at the time and my mate myself went to see it we came out shell shocked. Absolutely shell shock because it's broken complete new grilled at that time.SPEAKER: M2Well this is what was going on in this country.[…]

Charles Wilder

[…]wishing noise], and immediately we thought it was parachutes coming down. But it turned out to be that round the corner there'd been a house hit by a shell and there was a piece of lino hanging down from the rafters and this was going like this in the wind you see! [Chuckles] So you can imagine what[…]

Geoff Hermges

[…]e the early days, and they were all used with blues on we I think we had certain amount of color trends. There's monstrosities, but they were quickly shelled.Unknown Speaker  50:48  Why do you say monstrosity is the color trend?Speaker 3  50:52  Well, because you had to have this[…]

Sarah Erulkar (de Normanville)

[…] or an Indian woman. RG: Did you have any Indian friends at that time? SE: No, not really. In fact, I had none, no Indian friends until I went to, to Shell and met Rachel Judah (?), who was also an Indian Jew. Rodney Giesler  05:40Tell me a bit about your Jewish background because my knowl[…]

Kitty Marshall (Hermges)

[…]ly good. And a lovelyperson. Who else did I know? I don’t know. Oh yes, Geoffrey Bell from way back. I’ve never worked with him have I? No. He was at Shell. I think he went to Worldwide for abit didn’t he, at one time. Geoffrey Bell I remember because he was friends, very muchfriends with Ralph Elto[…]

Godfrey Jennison

[…]what I did. What he did say was what I like to be put forward in this film. It turned out to be a show mix and BP is supporting. The jointly owned by Shell and by BP as a marketing. UK and then my predecessor was a company manager at the film and even moving on and being promoted. And they wanted so[…]

Daphne Anstey (nee Lily)

[…]I had some friends down there. So I went to New York and became a film editor in New York for Standard Oil on a freelance basis. Now Standard Oil and Shell over here, I'm not absolutely sure that I 've got this right, but they were both competing for some work with the Shell Film Unit in Venezuela a[…]
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