[…] whichever one it wasI: It’s where the Gaiety used to be
CB: The Gaiety?I: No, no, Dailies, Dailies, sorryCB: The Gaiety, the Gaiety’s still on The StrandI: On The Strand, yes. No, Dailies, mmmCB: I didn’t know there was a Warner Brothers cinema in those days, I thought there was only the Empire i[…]
[…] and on the outbreak of war in 1939 found himself stranded in America. Through the war he worked in New […]
[…] were the various I mean, people overlapped a great deal. For example, john Taylor mcjrotc, alongside Donald Taylor, who used to run a company called strand films. I mean, whom I knew very well, and I didn't think I ever worked for him, but I knew very well not only because I would meet him in film […]
[…]e British Film Commission was financed for its first six months was I went to my bank and on my personal credit they provided the fund. Coutts in the Strand with my guarantee that if they didn’t pay in the end I would pay. I knew of course that they were going to pay in the end.And Coutts knew as we[…]
[…] middle distance and he said Mickey it was quite extraordinary we were driven for about 20 miles outside Moscow, extraordinary country he said, not a strand of barbed wire in sight. There you have the memoirs of a foxhunting man who was also an MP and been on a very important parliamentary delegatio[…]
[…] meanwhile, I was offered a job at the shell Film Unit as an assistant director, which I'd been doing most all flows of Chrome. So I landed up in the strand, shell Film Unit, the famous shell Film Unit, with Arthur Elton, as executive producer and all the well known names Peter Norman villain, Denni[…]
[…]my bar mitzvah I received two box cameras, two cameras, and started with photography and set up a dark room and started doing printing and developing films and so forth. And I think I bought my first movie camera when I was about seventeen or eighteen, which was a Pathe 9.5mm, and started shooting f[…]
[…]e were a little outpost of Shell there. And Shell were making films without Shell on them but a little SFU monogram on it which i thought must be the Strand film Unit when I saw it and I didn't realise until I was there that I was Shell. So I joined Shell. The first day I went to Geoffrey and he sai[…]
[…]rom lots of schoolwork there were three customers editing my life, which was a really prestigious series at the time. It was the main BBC documentary strand. They put out about 3050 minute films a year well, some 50 minutes of some half hour with 20 minutes discussions. And it covered a wide range o[…]
[…] a lot of model work in that. This was an air raid over London and this was done with a model over London of the Thames, I suppose it would be of the Strand area of the Thames, and the invading airships were models which were floated in little glass tanks, and they had in the gondolas they had Fulle[…]
