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[…] Bob Haass who was a personal friend. He was a Universal art director. And I mean it was just everybody […]

[…] ‘A’. And we had a little interval, probably for the news or something, and we went back, and he took […]

[…]vil was it in the Brooklyn Studios, where there's Stanley Watkins  1:09:36  Mike, there's Henry McCray who came over to from Universal to make a make a serial in England. And here he is looking for the Son. See. The Paris studios, those pictures I took of Joan of Arc, I was […]

[…]ly constructed block, called the Film Vaults Block which had been constructed for nitrate film because of course, when the BBC started the television news was on nitrate stock.  And, in fact, other programme material, but most of it was television news on nitrate stock which had to be stored in[…]

[…]ed the life of Riley, the British did too. I mean, there was a war going on, obviously, because we kept hearing about it. And there were cartoons and news reels, and things like that cartoons with anti German anti Hitler.But as a child, I grew up in the most wonderful way. I was born in a very beaut[…]

[…]lly generated enough DC to hold the dowser open. You couldn't even open it until it got there. In the winter it was a great problem because the heavy universal base of the Western Electric would take ages to get up to 24 frames. You'd have to run the machines up for about half an hour before the sho[…]

[…]to read books properly, I used to go up to my bedroom to read.  We had, like many families who had a radio where we heard the first ghastly news about war being declared, there was a big, heavy Bush radio on the floor in the dining room, where you had to have an appointment with the radio […]

[…]d out to be his favorite. So of course we had a great rapport from the beginning and but now we can understand his script. He was very bordering. And Universal had told him he could make it if he made it for a million pounds. So off we went to Malta to make his films which was a sex musical and it w[…]