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[…] in cinemas, you know - "16 mil. - pah!" But Shell were using it already, they were making a lot […]

[…] a kind of school for people John Taylor: That and Shell and the Coal Board but Transport in the field_was […]

[…] millimetre in 1937 was a rich man's toy. We looked upon it as an amateur - you wouldn't even consider it in cinemas, you know - "16 mil. - pah!" But Shell were using it already, they were making a lot of their documentaries and I think my father realised it might be going that way. So the film with[…]

[…] be firing all night like that in terrible conditions, the guns, all used to have a run ration. The ROM ration used to be the top of our three, seven shell cap, which is quite deep. It's quite a good ration. Now. Very unofficially, as none of my boys drink, drank, I used to send over a bottle to the[…]

[…]ughter, hilarity. And, yes, little going over the top and I have to say, I think for me, they were so extrovert so large, that I probably went into a shell if you like, because all I would do was to listen and to laugh. And that was in those days when I was only probably, you know, 789, whatever, yo[…]

[…]we had a wonderful kit for them to act in, a wonderful costume, but the sound effects afterwards were very difficult, we were having crunching muscle shells, in the end I think we did it with sugar I think, then we had to think how was he going to walk, we got to the final shots of hill having to wa[…]

[…]y Roy Clark, who's a well known TV writer and he wrote it for Alec Guiness read the script. And there was another part in in the in the script that a shell shocked war veteran they only had two lines to say in the whole film. And he said I would like to play that part. It wasn't written for him that[…]

[…] as a way of learning something about the background of the industry. Eventually. Having worked in very small documentary units I managed to get into shell. Basically because I had had this good degree. And managed to sue funnily enough through the BFI. Is this getting too long. Dennis former was ve[…]

[…]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[…]