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[…]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[…]

[…]rt of attacks round Dakar with battleships - Barham and one or two other ships we had around, the names of which I don't always recall, er, and a few shells were fired from a ship, which we'd allowed to go through the straits of Gibraltar, um, a French ship sailing out of Toulon I suppose, and made […]

[…] was more congenial to my frame of mind. And I worked in 2-D documentary movies up to my retirement date.I shot films for Anglo-Scottish Pictures and Shell Film Unit at first, and then, for nearly 20 years, I was with World Wide Pictures, specializing there in popular science films for sponsors like[…]

[…]ssible. And I remember one of the nicest ones of that was we did a street theatre and Geoff and Miriam and people were involved in this and Henry and Shelley were, do you remember them?SF: Yes. Of Central Books.That was, they were special. Yes, they were very special.SF: Or Collett, was he Collett’s[…]

[…]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?[…]

[…]where?Anthony Mendleson : Where?Linda Wood : Ah hmm.Anthony Mendleson : London.Linda Wood : London, yes. Did your family have any connection with the film industry or...?Anthony Mendleson : No not at all.Linda Wood : Not at all...?Anthony Mendleson : Ah hmm.Linda Wood : And, did you go to the cinema[…]

[…]ven Talents. Yes, that's right. Yes. And then and then Gierson  was asked to set up the GPO to manage and Edgar was put it to show he started to Shell Film Unit 1934. And your father presumably came in that from Cambridge, you're gonna get about that time, I guessCharlotte Jennings  13:01 […]

[…]ns in the film industry sothat when I’m discharged I’ll have some connections. And there was an advertisement inthe paper for a telephone operator at Shell Film Unit. [laughter] And I got the job, heaven knows why, I made complete spaghetti of the... because it was one of those switchboard[…]