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[…]f the eye of the aircraft. And so they could go in low level and fire shells at the coastal ships and sink them that way. And with some fighter try&nb[…]

[…] Page 3Delhi. But I mean I don’t know, it all gelled in some way and I was just lucky because Iwent to see Alex Volkov [?], you know, who was at Shell, and he also thought that this was a brilliant idea, actually go back and make documentary in India. But for variousreasons I can tell you that […]

[…] all arranged. In other words Beddington wanted, he had had a very narrow experience of film-making.  He had been Director of Publicity for Shell you see, and there was a Shell unit. And I think Beddington could only think really in terms of his own experience of film-making which was tota[…]

[…] 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[…]

[…] Miriam and people were involved in this and Henry and Shelley were, do you remember them? SF: Yes. Of Central […]

[…]t's happening now. So get out of the car rush up. And it's, well, basically what had happened in the down was littered with with spent cartridges and shells, and you're always told never to touch anything. So they were grouped around this Bren Gun Carrier. And we were discussing, well, I wasn't ther[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]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 […]

[…] show that when you had a collision or when a shell penetrated the thing, the best thing is to shut […]

[…]o Chatham and so on. And anyhow, this film was made and it was called Ship Safety and it was the idea to show that when you had a collision or when a shell penetrated the thing, the best thing is to shut the compartment door so that the ship...the water was contained to that particular section. And […]