[…]business for you to get the insurance money. And they had everybody in their pocket: fire chiefs, police chiefs, and the whole thing was bust open by William Charles Crocker?Roy Fowler  16:01  No ...Jonathan Balcon  16:01  William Charles, Sir William Charles Crocker was a very f[…]
[…]led with this serial, partly because I think the pianist used to give it a lot of um, tremolo and that sort of thing, and play the old overtures like William Tell, and you know, she brought it to life for me. Then one evening I went in and to my horror there was no piano and this Houdini who had bee[…]
[…]rked for me before then, or whether it was afterwards On the British however, a buddy of his was Wing Commander, Wing Commander, Wing Commander, Bill Williams. Bill Williams and we used to take the wine and the old Wellington and breaks introduced me to Bill Williams, who was, who is the Air Force F[…]
[…]xample?
Yes, I think, yes, both. Both.
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Yes, they were film directors too. Yah. And William Wyler and people like that. I was a great admirer of Wyler’s. [pause] And of course, I, you know, certain American editors.
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[…]It was the most extraordinary, they wanted me to make a film on motor car racing. Dreadful stuff, I wouldn't do it! And they said, "Vernon, we've got William Lundigan we've engaged him for this picture." I said, "Well it's rubbish!" So they said, "Well look here Vernon, if we get a really first clas[…]
[…]ater, there was a cameraman called Jimmy Rogers, James Rogers, who I worked for, and of course, later still, Claude Friese Greene, who was the son of William Friese Greene, who we, in England claim invented the motion picture. But that comes a little later. What happened was that I finally got a job[…]
[…] and where his arm was going to be - it's like a fight. Like when we did the fights for 'Romeo and Juliet.' Bill Hobbs, you know - who did the fight, William Hobbs - that fantastic fight he did between the boys, every single thing is worked out in a fight, and when you see it, it looks as if it's ne[…]
[…]e inventor of kinematography." We used the word 'kine' then.Roy Fowler : Yes, in its original Greek form.Ella Mallett : Yes.Roy Fowler : Did you know William Friese-Greene? Had you met him?Ella Mallett : No...no I hadn't. But I met the - in fact she hasn't gone only a few years - the wife - you know[…]
[…]Fowler:Yes right. But the two network stations because ABC didn't count in those days it was NBC and CBS, administered by intelligent educated people William Paley for example I get, when you look at William Paley and his landmark is, his posterity is what you know he's claim to fame, is CBS News th[…]
[…]t, he was a wild man in many ways.Robert Beatty: I never got to know him that well, it was one or two days.Roy Fowler: The producer was an American, [William] Bill Sistrom, do you remember him at all?Robert Beatty: I remember the name but I don't recall him.Roy Fowler: The script was by Terence Youn[…]
