Vernon Sewell

[…] mobile truck with a generator, sound recording, camera crane and everything! And we made a picture on the river for Oscar Deutsch called 'Old Father Thames.' Very far advanced, technically, in those days, because I had the thing towed by an electric launch, and it was technically very far advanced.[…]

Lois Singer

[…]ually. It was Rex Tucker, who did children's stuff. His daughter Jane is part of the group that was in the very successful children's programme which Thames did until their demise. In fact, it may even still be going on I don't know. And that's" Rainbow". She's one of the music team in that. One of […]

Charles W. Smith

[…]alist Productions, in collaboration again of course with the Spottiswoodes. And it was called Royal River. And it was a scenic film shot on the River Thames. Because of the massive and immovable nature of this giant camera, the film was nearly all shot from a barge, with the cameras mounted on a bar[…]

Ronald Neame

[…]l. And it all went reasonably well until we had this we had a big location on the Rochester marshes. And there was a big sequence on the river on the Thames, where they roll the convict out to the paddle steamer to help him to escape. The paddle steamer causes production itself because I had to get […]
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