[…]illiams 9:50Yes. And they were a poor quality. Yes, they were. Dr. Johnson. I'm sorry, Boswell said to Samuel Johnson, that play you saw in the Strand. Was it worth seeing? And Johnson said, Yes, it was worth seeing. But was it worth going to see? Now there is a great difference in what is wor[…]
[…]nt in." And he said, "They're the best we've seen, in animation," you know. And he says, "We're going to take him over to Shell Mex's building in The Strand." So gradually I got to know, because there were several times I was there at Elton's house, you know - it was a home from home for anybody in […]
[…] 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[…]
[…] nature of the advertising. And he thought for a . moment and said I suppose it might do. At that time there was a famous cigarette commercial called Strand and the slogan they used was you're never alone with a Strand. They had a very atmospheric cold dark street with this chap coming in and lookin[…]
[…]n 1920, May, in Rugby in Warwickshire. And my father kept a photographic chemist's shop. And so we had, uh, sold cameras, and I served customers with films and loaded the cameras. [laughter] I was the boy for all the people who'd bought expensive cameras and then had to get a shop assistant to load […]
[…]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[…]
[…] example if you thought that somebody had twigged we were filming like you're looking at me an extra gut say excuse me can you tell me the way to the strand and the bloke said Oh yes you go down there you see. We learnt that from Rene Clement? that had never been tried before have six trained extras[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]he musical director at the time he used to be the conductor who played and orchestrated all the music for a cinema against the silent pictures in the Strand. A famous …ROY FOWLER: The Tivoli.HARRY MILLER: Tivoli, yes. He used to direct the music and he had an assistant then who was a ver[…]
