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[…] far away we were from advertising. We were really exploring er - the new technologies with the aid of the new, modern medium of exposition. The, the sound film. INT What was the process for selecting the topic for the films you worked on? Was it from some committee within Shell or ...? A No. No. We[…]
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[…] had a green lighting on the screen just to give it an eerie sort of feel. And yes a black and white film and then quite out of the blue there was no sound at all at this point. There would be a blood curdling scream from the back of the cinema on the left hand side the speaker over the exit box.Whi[…]
[…]u can do what you're doing. You don't want to go into employment do you your'e doing all right. I said, I was interested in what the job was about it sounded, you know, an exciting job, because Huw Weldon had written up that piece, which made it sound rather good. A challenge you might say and they […]
